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

[Alexander Vassilev]

Hello Darin,

I am sorry for posting to the wrong list, I will subscribe to the 
webkit-help forum for the future. Thank you very much for the detailed 
and accurate response.

Best regards
Alex

Darin Adler wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 6:28 AM, Alexander Vassilev wrote:
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>> 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:
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>     https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20249
>     http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/41297
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>   
>> 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
>
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