# Web Viewer Problem June 2020

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** webviewer\
**Created:** [June 13, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305 "2020-06-13T15:50:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 18\
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**Author:** ![knownkeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@knownkeep](https://community.thunkable.com/u/knownkeep)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/1 "2020-06-13T15:50:11Z")

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I have an odd web viewer problem that I’m going in circles trying to debug. What’s odd is (I believe) it was working yesterday, so I’m leaning towards it might even be a bug.

**Short description:**

Once set the first time, Web viewer will NOT (re)Set URL to the same domain. If I switch domains temporarily and go back, though, it works.

**Longer description:**

1. Web viewer loads a site
2. On the site you can pick a report to run, run it, and it opens a PDF (or other format)
3. I have the Home tab set to load the main URL
4. I have button “Back 1” to load the same main URL
5. I have button “Back 2” to load [Thunkable.com](http://Thunkable.com) (you’ll see why in a second)
6. If I click any links on web viewer page (site) itself, the web viewer correctly navigates to that link.
7. Problem Here: If I then click either Home or Back 1, NOTHING CHANGES. Set URL does not work. It’s ignored. I even added a web viewer reload at one point, and I can see the reload refresh, but URL doesn’t change.
8. If I click Back 2 to load Thunkable (or any other site), it loads, and…
9. I can THEN click Back 1 and the main site will correct load/Set URL properly. Note, I believe clicking Home should also always open the main site again, but that’s not working either.
10. Also note, if I click Settings or Info, those views load but going back to Home does NOT reset/reload/set the URL correctly either.

Here is screenshot from test app:

 ![screen](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/7/2/725412e21fd9818655d3140ed7dd25b3d6aff507.jpeg)

Here are blocks for that view:

 ![blocks](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/6/d/6dae29fbb22a07006f8bcbe23bbf67425a6fcbd3.png)

The site is a demo site, so nothing top secret. The URL that should be loading/reloading is formatted like this:

[http://3.226.176.29:88/Jeff-NetReportRunnerWebPortal/login.aspx?ID=demo&PW=demo](http://3.226.176.29:88/Jeff-NetReportRunnerWebPortal/login.aspx?ID=demo&PW=demo)

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![thomasevers9n78cu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@thomasevers9n78cu](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thomasevers9n78cu)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/2 "2020-06-14T09:02:52Z")

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I am having the same problem, cant seem to fix it.  
Whats weird is that you can print out the current URL, and even when you have navigated to a totally different page or website within the webviewer, it will still consider the page you are on currently to have the same URL as you started with…  
The URL doesnt actually change when navigating through the internet, it just remains the start url.

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**Author:** ![knownkeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@knownkeep](https://community.thunkable.com/u/knownkeep)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/3 "2020-06-14T16:53:25Z")

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Thanks, Thomas, for confirming I’m not crazy. It’s got to be a bug. Hopefully someone on staff will confirm on Monday. And hopefully it will be resolved quickly.

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**Author:** ![knownkeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@knownkeep](https://community.thunkable.com/u/knownkeep)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/4 "2020-06-16T04:57:53Z")

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Can someone confirm this is a bug? Do I need to post on Github? Please advise.

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**Author:** ![jane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jane/32/27575_2.png) [@jane](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jane)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/5 "2020-06-17T09:39:52Z")

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Hi there,

This does seem to be an issue on our end.  
Could you please file an issue in our [public github repository?](http://community.thunkable.com/t/report-bugs-and-submit-feature-requests-in-our-public-github-repository/31760)

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**Author:** ![knownkeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@knownkeep](https://community.thunkable.com/u/knownkeep)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/6 "2020-06-18T17:28:12Z")

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Yes, I will file an issue in Github. In the meantime, I’ve created a workaround/hack for this issue. Hopefully it will help others.

I created a “dummy” HTML file called reset.html (uploaded here as text file). Just upload it as a local file (rename to .html before uploading).

To reset your web viewer, navigate to reset.html, pause 1 second, then navigate back to your main URL.

Here is my code block. I added a loading icon so the one second pause isn’t as noticeable.

![reset-hack](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/a/a/aa836da55c345cc53d33ec14967db6da994ed40d.jpeg)

[reset.txt](https://community.thunkable.com/uploads/short-url/gkeZLfM8B2lLpZcAGnlLOdK2K5o.txt) (71 Bytes)

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**Author:** ![knownkeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@knownkeep](https://community.thunkable.com/u/knownkeep)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/7 "2020-07-13T16:02:21Z")

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Created GitHub issue:

> <https://github.com/thunkable/thunkable-issues/issues/596>
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> I have an odd web viewer problem that I’m going in circles trying to debug. What’s odd is (I believe) it...

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**Author:** ![knownkeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@knownkeep](https://community.thunkable.com/u/knownkeep)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/8 "2020-11-02T16:33:18Z")

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This issue appears to be fixed even though nothing has been mentioned about it in release notes or in the GitHub ticket.

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**Author:** ![tunguyen2000vn111e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@tunguyen2000vn111e](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tunguyen2000vn111e)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/9 "2021-03-27T18:18:05Z")

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Tôi hoàn toàn không view vào được trang web của mình  
Mặc dù mọi thứ vẫn đang rất tốt

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**Author:** ![tunguyen2000vn111e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@tunguyen2000vn111e](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tunguyen2000vn111e)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/10 "2021-03-27T18:19:18Z")

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Uploading: screenshot\_1616869097.png…

 ![screenshot_1616869097](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/1/9/19efb74301fda38d971d9ccba26265dbf6112dce.png)  
Cứ Loading như thế,không có gì xảy ra tiếp theo

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**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/11 "2021-03-27T19:25:32Z")

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@tunguyen2000vn111e I used Google Translate and got:

“I can’t view my website at all  
Things are still going well though”

Are you using https to connect to your site?

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**Author:** ![tunguyen2000vn111e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@tunguyen2000vn111e](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tunguyen2000vn111e)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2021, 5:49am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/12 "2021-03-28T05:49:19Z")

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Yes,I have an SSL certificate installed  
It doesn’t work on pro version. !!!

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**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/13 "2021-03-28T10:36:35Z")

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Can you share your project link with me so I can take a closer look?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![tunguyen2000vn111e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@tunguyen2000vn111e](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tunguyen2000vn111e)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/14 "2021-03-28T11:29:47Z")

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[https://x.thunkable.com/projects/60601b2b15d87700125bff4f/project/properties/designer](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/60601b2b15d87700125bff4f/project/properties/designer)  
Thank brooo

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**Author:** ![iquilt4uwivlwln](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/53a042/32.png) [@iquilt4uwivlwln](https://community.thunkable.com/u/iquilt4uwivlwln)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/15 "2021-05-03T15:34:11Z")

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I have the same problem, I think. This is what I see when I put in the web address. I am very new to this, but can someone please help me?

 ![Screen Shot 2021-05-03 at 10.34.03 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/b/f/bf9217770a85fd376f0858e23ef2d0b3edb44d74.png)

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/16 "2021-05-03T16:13:40Z")

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What happens when you Preview it? It should display the website.

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**Author:** ![pesajejar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/76d3ee/32.png) [@pesajejar](https://community.thunkable.com/u/pesajejar)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 11:40am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/17 "2021-05-17T11:40:25Z")

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I have the following problem. As URL I use a local file that contains script to display a QR code.

When I use the application from android, many times it fails and tells me that it cannot find the domain. When I do an installable, iOS works correctly but android crashes the application.

The URL is indicated in the properties of the webViewer and then, I simply update the url with a join of the initial url plus the character? and finally the text with which I want to display the QR code.

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/web-viewer-problem-june-2020/613305/18 "2024-11-08T11:25:40Z")

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