WebHistoryItem: URL vs Original URL

Issue

In WebHistoryItem's documentation says:

URL

Return the url of this history item. The url is the base url of this history item. See getTargetUrl() for the url that is the actual target of this history item.

Original URL

Return the original url of this history item. This was the requested url, the final url may be different as there might have been redirects while loading the site.

It makes me confused enough. What I want to know is, what are differences between them? Can you give me some examples?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

Well, after I did some research I found differences between them. Original URL is a URL before redirected. Suppose that you opening a shorten link like this https://bit•ly/sG98iK, then you will be redirected to a web page with the following URL https://example.com/android/tutorial/webview.html. We call https://bit•ly/sG98iK as original URL, and https://example.com/android/tutorial/webview.html as URL, i.e. the URL after redirected.

Notice that original URL is nullable.

Answered By - Anggrayudi H