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alsocalledchris opened this issue Feb 9, 2019 · 43 comments
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c: new feature Nothing broken; request for a new capability customer: crowd Affects or could affect many people, though not necessarily a specific customer. p: webview The WebView plugin P1 High-priority issues at the top of the work list package flutter/packages repository. See also p: labels.

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@alsocalledchris
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Allow the initial URL to be a POST request instead of a GET request.

Should accept POST data.

@kangwang1988 kangwang1988 added waiting for customer response The Flutter team cannot make further progress on this issue until the original reporter responds p: webview The WebView plugin p: first party and removed waiting for customer response The Flutter team cannot make further progress on this issue until the original reporter responds labels Feb 10, 2019
@zoechi
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zoechi commented Feb 11, 2019

Can you elaborate on the use case?
Why not just sending the POST request from dart code without WebView?

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@alsocalledchris
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This is useful when sending sensitive information to a website that responds with a web page that the user then may interact with - e.g. when bridging a session from between a flutter app and the main website shown in the webview to perform other operations.

Apps do something like this to allow the user to manage additional settings in the main website not offered in their mobile app.

A GET request limits you to passing parameters in the query string which is not as secure as via a POST body request (GET request with params could be stored in various logs).

@no-response no-response bot removed the waiting for customer response The Flutter team cannot make further progress on this issue until the original reporter responds label Feb 11, 2019
@gitanjal
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In our case , we need to authenticate the user before presenting some content in the WebView. The postUrl() of WebView was being used in Android.

@luckmlc
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luckmlc commented Jul 25, 2019

@amirh @mklim .

I also have this requirement in my project. I want to set the parameters of the Post data when I open the webview request url.
I hope that the flutter development team can consider adding this feature. thanks.

@mapacheverdugo
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mapacheverdugo commented Jul 27, 2019

Same here, I need this feature.

This is my current temporary (and improvised) solution:

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return WebviewScaffold(
      withJavascript: true,
      appCacheEnabled: true,
      url: new Uri.dataFromString(_loadHTML(), mimeType: 'text/html').toString(),
    );
  }

  String _loadHTML() {
    return r'''
      <html>
        <body onload="document.f.submit();">
          <form id="f" name="f" method="post" action="YOUR_POST_URL">
            <input type="hidden" name="PARAMETER" value="VALUE" />
          </form>
        </body>
      </html>
    ''';
  }

@iapicca iapicca added the customer: crowd Affects or could affect many people, though not necessarily a specific customer. label Nov 4, 2019
@BryanNeuberger
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Is there an update on if or when this feature will be implemented? I too am needing this feature.

@omarhuss
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Same here, I need this feature.

This is my current temporary (and improvised) solution:

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return WebviewScaffold(
      withJavascript: true,
      appCacheEnabled: true,
      url: new Uri.dataFromString(_loadHTML(), mimeType: 'text/html').toString(),
    );
  }

  String _loadHTML() {
    return r'''
      <html>
        <body onload="document.f.submit();">
          <form id="f" name="f" method="post" action="YOUR_POST_URL">
            <input type="hidden" name="PARAMETER" value="VALUE" />
          </form>
        </body>
      </html>
    ''';
  }

Any idea on how to pass headers in the post request?

@marinat
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marinat commented Nov 18, 2019

@omarhuss maybe use https://pub.dev/packages/html?

@arnaudelub
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Meanwhile, you can try flutter_inappwebview,

@magicleon94
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Thank you. This workaround saved my life!

@mikylucky
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I'd like this feature too!

@alwaysadapa
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In security stand point this is very essential feature where application transition into webview for additional functionality while maintaining state.Initial GET request, would always need to carry sensitive information and token in such cases which are logged and cached as a result of this.I see this is opened for more than a year, please take it on priority.

@satishsoni777
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is anyone has implemented this feature I also need to implement this, please help

@atta1234
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Same here, I need this feature.

This is my current temporary (and improvised) solution:

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return WebviewScaffold(
      withJavascript: true,
      appCacheEnabled: true,
      url: new Uri.dataFromString(_loadHTML(), mimeType: 'text/html').toString(),
    );
  }

  String _loadHTML() {
    return r'''
      <html>
        <body onload="document.f.submit();">
          <form id="f" name="f" method="post" action="YOUR_POST_URL">
            <input type="hidden" name="PARAMETER" value="VALUE" />
          </form>
        </body>
      </html>
    ''';
  }

Hello can you please help me , i have web view and that has only paypal pay now button, so i want to pas the price from flutter to paypal amount value,,,but i m not sure please help

@rlechetaudemy
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Google, I need this too. And it so simple to do, why don't you guys add the postUrl?

@dicroce
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dicroce commented Jun 23, 2020

I need this too. Please do this.

@chakAs3
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chakAs3 commented Jul 15, 2020

Thank you. This workaround saved my life!

Hi magicleon94, how this workaround saved your life, i tried InAppWebview.postUrl(url , datalist )
but i get no post on the server the request is empty, can give me an example how you implemented it Thanks

@MuthuSubramaniam
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Thank you. This workaround saved my life!

Hi magicleon94, how this workaround saved your life, i tried InAppWebview.postUrl(url , datalist )
but i get no post on the server the request is empty, can give me an example how you implemented it Thanks

same for me too :-(

if you get any solution kindly assist me.Thanks

@yashwp
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yashwp commented Dec 23, 2020

My application is using webview_flutter heavily for all of it. Now of this missing functionality, I have to install this package!

@Melak12
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Melak12 commented Dec 23, 2020

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@rossman-x
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Hello, this feature is important, It can help me implement 3ds payment security layer in order to prevent fraudulent payments, I need to redirect users to the bank website with data.

@CodeOutput
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@Melak12 is not working .. you share please fullcoded(toUtfEncoded)

@ischyron
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Need this one.

@demchiva
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demchiva commented Feb 8, 2021

Need this feature.

@cyanglaz cyanglaz added the P1 High-priority issues at the top of the work list label Feb 11, 2021
@trapeye
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trapeye commented Mar 22, 2021

we need this one, please we united as one and make this feature complete

@gururajahegde
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Need this feature, even in flutter web

@srockytfl
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srockytfl commented Apr 5, 2021

need this too.

@rirjkl19
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I need this too. Allowing Post data upon app start in void main() when using a flutter web

@snghnishant
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This is useful when sending sensitive information to a website that responds with a web page that the user then may interact with - e.g. when bridging a session from between a flutter app and the main website shown in the webview to perform other operations.

Apps do something like this to allow the user to manage additional settings in the main website not offered in their mobile app.

A GET request limits you to passing parameters in the query string which is not as secure as via a POST body request (GET request with params could be stored in various logs).

Yup I also need this for our company's mobile app where we have to redirect the users to a webpage with some encrypted data as a post request and the response will be an HTML page that's to be loaded in webview from the other service that we are integrating for further authorization that can only happen in that previously loaded HTML from our post request data.

@Enlacecode
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We also need this in one of our apps.

Hey Flutter team, please implement this, this feature was requested more than 2 years ago.

@nicol-ograve
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Same here

@ifin2000
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I managed it by using another package called Flutter In-App View: https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_inappwebview

how? can you explain please?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66396219/how-to-post-data-to-url-in-flutter-webview

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Hixie commented Oct 26, 2021

The status of this issue is that we had a PR: flutter/plugins#1970
Unfortunately the contributor had insufficient time to address the issues and was forced to move on to other things. If anyone would like to pick this up, please do so!

@stuartmorgan-g
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This is fixed by the PRs above.

KyleFin pushed a commit to KyleFin/plugins that referenced this issue Dec 21, 2021
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Implements the `loadRequest` method added in flutter#4450 for the Android package.

Related issue:
- flutter/flutter#27730
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