Using local path with WebView (Webkit)

7
votes

I'm trying to use Gtk port of Webkit. All works fine. But when I'm using local path in src attribute to load image from my HDD (src="file://...") I'm getting the next warning in console:

not allowed to load local resource file://...

And image doesn't loading. Any suggestions?

P.S. I'm using load_string method with fake base url (fake://url).

2
gtkwebkit
Can you post the code that doesn't work? - ptomato
This is Vala code: webview.load_string("<img src='file:///home/tmpuser/proj/test.png' />", "text/html", "utf8", "fake://url"); - troorl

2 Answers

7
votes

If you use "file://" as the base URL, then it should work. It's unclear to me whether this is a bug and whether it should also work if the base URL is NULL (it doesn't), but see the discussion starting here on the webkit-dev mailing list.

3
votes
WebKitWebSettings *s = webkit_web_settings_new();
g_object_set(G_OBJECT(s),"enable-file-access-from-file-uris", TRUE, NULL);
webkit_web_view_set_settings(WEBKIT_WEB_VIEW(webkit),s);