[webkit-dev] AJAX requests from local files to network stopped working in 4.6

[Darin Adler]

On Dec 7, 2009, at 6:28 AM, Alexander Vassilev wrote:

> With qtwebkit 4.5.x I had no problems doing so, no cross-site scripting blocking by webkit, everything just worked (i did security control by myself). With qt 4.6 however, I get an empty responseText of the XMLHttpRequest object.

I think this message belongs on webkit-help rather than webkit-dev. Please look at <http://webkit.org/contact.html> to see the description of the purpose of the mailing lists.

The change in behavior is due to:

    https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20249
    http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/41297

> is there a way to disable this security feature, like it was in the qt-4.5.x version of WebKit?

The setAllowUniversalAccessFromFileUrls function is what you are looking for, I think.

    -- Darin