[webkit-gtk] local files don't work

Gustavo Noronha Silva gns at gnome.org
Tue Oct 27 18:45:08 PDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 00:12 +0100, Josip wrote:
> can somebody please explain how webkit handles local files (those 
> accessed with "file://").

It uses GIO.

> It looks like any local files is rendering just as ascii text.
> So i would like to know what didReceiveResponse() actualy do and why 
> that not works in windows.

That's because of you missing shared-mime-info. GIO depends on that to
correctly identify the content type of the file.

See you,

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Gustavo Noronha Silva <gns at gnome.org>
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