[webkit-qt] WebKit2: ignore SSL errors

[Alberto Mardegan]

Hi Luca,

On 09/30/2013 11:45 AM, Luca Ottaviano wrote:
> Hi Alberto,
> I would say that's an error on the certificate side and you should
> strive to use a proper certificate chain, so that you don't have any
> failures. There are many subtleties that can destroy the security of
> your application. [1]

Absolutely. I need this only in some test code, where I'm verifying my 
component against a local web server, which uses a self-signed certificate.

> That said, I guess your only option in QML WebKit 3.0 is to use the
> experimental features.
> Every component you set to experimental.certificateVerificationDialog is
> given a model with the following properties and methods:
> * model.hostname: the hostname that triggered the ssl error
> * model.accept(): call this if you want to ignore the error
> * model.reject(): call this if you want to stop loading the page
>
> You can only extract further info by reading the source code of qtwebkit
> and by checking the test cases.
> See for example:
> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/qt/qquickwebview.cpp
> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/qt/qquickwebview_p.h

Cool! Thank you very much!!

Ciao,
   Alberto