I am using UIWebView to render a GPS map on the iPhone. When I load it with the following code: [myWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[textField text]]]]; I get an NSURLErrorDomain error -999. The same code works fine with other URLs like www.apple.com and www.intel.com. It doesnt seem to be a redirect issue; I tested it by creating a tinyurl for www.apple.com an