[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 17147] [GTK] API: Stream-based loader API

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17147





------- Comment #1 from jdapena at igalia.com  2008-07-15 05:17 PDT -------
I would very interested in helping on this. Unfortunately, I still don't have
enough knowledge on the parts I should touch to add this feature (webcore and
webkit architecture elements involved, the interaction among them, etc).

Some additional points for things we need in tinymail and modest:
   * We need to be able to feed a custom stream.
   * We also need that webkit provide a way to provide a custom stream for
specific uris (for example, for loading images).

Currently, talking about the implementation we use, in gtkhtml, it provides:
   * A signal "url-requested". This signal offers a GtkHTMLStream you can feed
(from your own stream or whatever you need). This is used for loading images or
other resources included inside the document (we hook to this for cid: uris,
and also for managing internally fetching or blocking external image uris).
   * An api to obtain a GtkHTMLStream from the gtkhtml widget, you can write
to. This API is used for loading the document itself to the html widget.

Maybe it would be good if we could use a standard GIO channel for this, so that
we can use as much standard glib/gtk api as possible.


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