<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Yes, this is possible. There are currently two paths to making Web Inspector work across processes.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>1. ENABLE(INSPECTOR_SERVER)</div><div><br></div><div>Currently enabled by GTK and EFL. The UIProcess process establishes an HTTP Web/WebSocket server. The index page is a listing page which advertises information about each of the different WebViews that can be inspected. For each of these there is a page which fetches the HTML web inspector frontend assets (WebInspectorUI) and then establishes a WebSocket connection back to the UIProcess to send and receive inspector protocol messages.</div><div><br></div><div>Pros:</div><div> - easy to implement and setup</div><div> - a compatible web inspector frontend is downloaded on demand, so it should be guarenteed to work</div><div> - debugger could just be another web browser (you will get best results when that other browser is a WebKit based browser)</div><div>Cons:</div><div> - pull based, debugger needs to fetch an updated listing</div><div> - frontend features can be limited when run in a generic web environment (non-native context menus, no copy/paste, no system beep, etc)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>2. ENABLE(REMOTE_INSPECTOR)</div><div><br></div><div>Currently enabled by Mac and iOS. Very port specific right now. Uses XPC to communicate to a middleman process that advertising and helps set up connections for the inspector protocol messages.</div><div><br></div><div>Pros:</div><div> - push based. As WebViews are created, destroyed, or change, they can advertise updates to debuggers</div><div> - using XPC the middleman process can check privileges of each side</div><div>Cons:</div><div> - frontend is not downloaded, so it requires having a debugger process with a frontend that will work with whatever it is connected to</div><div> - not implemented in other ports, would take port specific work to get this path up and running in other ports</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If this is just something you want to get up and running to make debugging as a developer easier, it sounds like ENABLE(INSPECTOR_SERVER) would work well for you. Depending on your port, there should be settings for enabling and configuring the inspector server (e.g. port # for the server to listen on) and it should be easy to get up and running.</div><div><br></div><div>What port are you working on?</div><div><br></div><div>- Joe</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jun 20, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Vienneau, Christopher <<a href="mailto:cvienneau@ea.com">cvienneau@ea.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: MyriadSet-Text; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I’m investigating the possibility of getting access to the “Web Inspector” UI<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebInspector#no1" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebInspector#no1</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>remotely via another browser/process. This is useful when attempting to debug a page on a device that doesn’t have the same screen real estate as your PC, such as a mobile device. I’m familiar with “Weinre”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/Home.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/Home.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which offers many of the features of Web Inspector in a fashion that I’m talking about; but some important elements are missing, such as profiling and java script debugging. I found “heX”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/netease-youdao/hex" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">https://github.com/netease-youdao/hex</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is able to do what I want, but I would like to be able to accomplish the same thing from WebKit itself, since the target platform isn’t on the pc. Searching through the WebKit source code I can’t find any trace of it having the ability to open a listening port to have a debugging client attach. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Is such a thing already possible? The docs, and older mail threads suggested that remote operation was once a goal of Web Inspector, does work continue on this vein? Please offer any suggestions on how this might be accomplished.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thanks<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Chris Vienneau<o:p></o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>webkit-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>