[webkit-dev] How to let webkit to be able to load local image file in html content?

[Jan Alonzo]

Hi  james,

can you please file a bug against the WebKitGtk component at
http://bugs.webkit.org. I don't think that's correct.

Thanks,
Jan

On 5/14/09, Zhe Su <james.su at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just found that the problem is gone when the base_uri parameter is set to
> "file://" instead of NULL. Is it a correct way?
>
> Regards
> James Su
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Zhe Su <james.su at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Attached is a simple test program. When running the program, following
>> error occurred:
>>
>> console message:  @0: Not allowed to load local resource:
>> file:///usr/share/pixmaps/elisa.svg
>>
>> But if you save the html content into a file and load it with GtkLauncher,
>> then it's ok.
>>
>> Regards
>> James Su
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:26 AM, tonikitoo (Antonio Gomes) <
>> tonikitoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It sounds like we can be misusing the base_url parameter. could you
>>> paste how you are calling the method (parameters and so) and a snippet
>>> of the local html file.
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Zhe Su <james.su at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >   When I call webkit_web_view_load_html_string() to load a html content
>>> into
>>> > a webkitview, webkit always refuses to load local files (image)
>>> > referred
>>> in
>>> > the html content. Is it possible to work around this behavior and let
>>> webkit
>>> > load local files?
>>>
>>> --
>>> --Antonio Gomes
>>>
>>
>>
>