[webkit-dev] How to cancel a resource request

[Jaroslav Gresula]

Xan Lopez wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Jaroslav Gresula
> <jgresula.LEAVE-THIS-OUT at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In my WebKit port (based on the GTK port) I would like to cancel a
>> resource request depending on the resource length or its MIME type.
>>
>> I thought, dispatchDidReceiveResponse(DocumentLoader*, ...) in my
>> WebCore::FrameLoaderClient implementation could be a good place for such
>> action as I can retrieve the length and the MIME type from the
>> ResourceResponse argument there. However I did not find the way how to
>> cancel the request.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> in dispatchWillSendRequest you can modify the URI of the resource
> that's about to be requested. If you set it to, say, "about:blank",
> nothing will be requested. This is what the GTK+ port does, through a
> signal emission, to let clients implement things like adblock.
>

That's a nice trick but is the resource MIME type and its length known
at this point? My understanding is that this information is not
available until dispatchDidReceiveResponse().

Thanks,
-- 
Jarda
http://jagpdf.org