[webkit-gtk] No images on Windows, just wireframes

Matthew Talbert ransom1982 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 00:15:01 PDT 2011


> As Martin noted, the following is the correct form of file URL including
> drive letter:
>  file:///C:/Users/matthew/AppData/Roaming/images/image.jpg
> (For historic reasons, a | is usually accepted in place of the : in the
> drive component, since that's what the old Netscape browsers used.)
>
> The world is a little divided about what the correct form of URL is for a
> UNC path.  The one that seems to work most universally is this:
>  file://///servername/sharename/folder/subfolder/image.jpg
>
> Some browsers additionally accept this:
>  file://servername/sharename/folder/subfolder/image.jpg
>
> (I haven't done any libwebkit-specific tests on these, as my usage only
> needed to support a local mini-http server, or occasionally data: URLs, and
> I'm building on Linux.)

Yea, I've tried all of these forms.

Is there any way to make webkit print out some debug messages? Maybe
that would give me a clue as to what is going wrong?

Thanks,
Matthew


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