[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 19360] New: Frags on current page don't generate "navigation-requested" events

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19360

           Summary: Frags on current page don't generate "navigation-
                    requested" events
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 526+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKit Gtk
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: Don at Scorgie.org
                CC: alp at nuanti.com


While trying to make yelp (the GNOME help browser) work with Webkit, I've hit
the following issue (copy-paste of an email I originally sent to Alp directly):

I've uploaded an example program to:
http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/webkit_frags.c

The basic problem is that anchor points to current documents sometimes
doesn't emit a "navigation-request" signal.

The example program (compiled with:
gcc -o main webkit_frags.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs webkit-1.0`
) produces a page with 2 anchors and 2 links in it.  The first link
looks like:
<a href="#link1">
while the second looks like:
<a href="out.xhtml#link2">

When run without parameters, the example will set the base URI to:
"file://out.xhtml".  In this case, clicking the first link will move to
the corresponding anchor, but not generate the "navigation-requested"
event (as denoted by a message to stdout).

The program can take a second parameter, which specifies the base URI.
If this is set to:
"out.xhtml", the navigation-requested signal is generated, but the page
doesn't jump.
"/out.xhtml" the navigation-signal is NOT generated and the page jumps.
"file:out" the navigation-signal is NOT generated and the page jumps.
"out" the navigation-signal is generated, but the page doesn't jump.

Anyway, the basic pattern seems to be a signal is only generated when
the base URI doesn't contain a ":" or "/" character.

This is a bit of a problem for us as gnome-doc-utils (which generates
our xhtml) tends to create links using "#frag" for pages in the same
document, but not on the same page.  The way we get around this is to
intercept links clicked and handle them ourselves.

Long ramblings later, I'm done.  Any help with this would be
appreciated.


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