[webkit-dev] How to cancel a resource request

[Xan Lopez]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Jaroslav Gresula
<jgresula.LEAVE-THIS-OUT at gmail.com> wrote:
> Xan Lopez wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Jaroslav Gresula
>> <jgresula.LEAVE-THIS-OUT at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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().
>>
>> Well, no, but since you were asking how to cancel the request I
>> assumed you wanted to do it before it was done, not after... If you
>> want to do things based on the MIME type of the resource see
>> dispatchDecidePolicyForMIMEType, which also carries the
>> ResourceRequest.
>
> Ok, let me rephrase my question: what I need is to cancel an ongoing
> (sub)resource request once its length and MIME type are known. This way
> I could avoid retrieving of resources whose length exceeds certain limit
> or whose MIME type can't be handled by my port.
>
> I've already looked at dispatchDecidePolicyForMIMEType() and it seemed
> to me that it is invoked only for the main resource but not for
> sub-resources (i.e. images) - I will look into it closer.

Ah, you are right, I think it's only emitted for the main resource and
any frame in the page maybe.

So yeah, other than suggesting the method you already mentioned and
the other resource-specific functions in FrameLoaderClient nothing to
add :)

Xan

>
> Thanks,
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