Authentication with WKWebView in Swift

Question

In my iOS app, I would like to use a WKWebView to wrap an external URL in the application. This URL requires basic authentication (it needs user and password credential, lik

Answer 1

In a simpler way:

Though this answer looks redundant but posting as this may help other naive developers (like me).

   func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didReceive challenge: URLAuthenticationChallenge, completionHandler: @escaping (URLSession.AuthChallengeDisposition, URLCredential?) -> Void) {
        guard (webView.url?.host) != nil else {
            return
        }
        let authenticationMethod = challenge.protectionSpace.authenticationMethod
        if authenticationMethod == NSURLAuthenticationMethodDefault || authenticationMethod == NSURLAuthenticationMethodHTTPBasic || authenticationMethod == NSURLAuthenticationMethodHTTPDigest {
            let credential = URLCredential(user: userName, password: password, persistence: .none)
            completionHandler(.useCredential, credential)
        } else if authenticationMethod == NSURLAuthenticationMethodServerTrust {
            completionHandler(.performDefaultHandling, nil)
        } else {
            completionHandler(.cancelAuthenticationChallenge, nil)
        }
    }