[webkit-dev] Complicated Loaders

[Eric Seidel]

I would also like such an explanation.
And would certainly encourage Brady to do a blog post on the subject. :)

-eric

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Tau After <aftertau at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Brady,
> Thank you very much for the answer.
> to be more specific:
> 1, what's the intention of FrameLoader and DocumentLoader (there is also a
> DocLoader)?
> 2, I'd like a flow description about how the FrameLoader::load() goes to
> ResourceRequest methods?  I can't read forward the "checkNavigationPolicy()"
> and don't know how a ResourceRequest is finally being launched/triggered  :(
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Fengqi
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Brady Eidson <beidson at apple.com>
> To: Tau After <aftertau at yahoo.com>
> Cc: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:09:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Complicated Loaders
>
> The sequence of FrameLoader and DocumentLoader functions is indeed
> complicated and overloaded.  This is slowly being improved over time, little
> by little.  And no, there is no documentation at this time.
> I'm not sure of the exact motivation for your question, but you did end on a
> very specific note so this might be of use.  The question of "how WebKit is
> invoking the HTTP stack" is much simpler - the ResourceRequest,
> ResourceHandle, and ResourceResponse classes are all fairly encapsulated and
> represent HTTP connections.
> ~Brady
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 12:03 AM, Tau After wrote:
>
> could anybody point me to some introduction/documents about WebCore/loader?
> I just want to know the normal flow of  web page loading, and was soonly
> lost in those many overloaded FrameLoader::load() implementations :(
> so where is the code to read if I want to know how Webkit is invoking the
> HTTP stack ?
>
> Thanks in advence.
> Tau.
>
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