[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 32327] ononline, onoffline and navigator.onLine don't work if Parallels or VMWare is installed

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32327


Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|ononline, onoffline and     |ononline, onoffline and
                   |navigator.onLine don't      |navigator.onLine don't work
                   |respond to establishing and |if Parallels or VMWare is
                   |losing connections          |installed




--- Comment #3 from Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>  2009-12-11 00:16:56 PST ---
What target should we use with SCNetworkReachabilitySetCallback? What if the
page in question is actually opened from a server running in VMWare?

Indeed, there are many cases where online/offline and navigator.onLine events
are broken by design. For example, if I'm connected to VPN, and open a Web
application from internal network, should an offline event be dispatched once I
disconnect from VPN? Or what if a page that's open from intranet fetches its
data from an external source with XMLHttpRequest, and a link to that external
source gets dropped?

Exposing something like SCNetworkReachability to Web applications could make
sense in my opinion, but a binary online/offline flag just doesn't describe the
reality well.

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