[webkit-dev] Webkit does not showing local html files

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 01:30:48PM +0000, Pushkin Andrei wrote:
> Hi. I use webkit 1.10 with embbeded mips device. Its working fine with http and https, but is does not working with local files like file:///root/index.html . Its show only sources of HTML page.

I've encountered that as well. WebKit needs shared-mime-info[1] to determine
the mime type, when that's not available it defaults to plain text.

[1] http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info