[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 24547] src of embed elements are downloaded when no plugin exists to handle them

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24547


gns at gnome.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |gns at gnome.org
          Component|WebKit Gtk                  |Page Loading
            Summary|[GTK] Page opens a bunch of |src of embed elements are
                   |bogus download dialogs      |downloaded when no plugin
                   |                            |exists to handle them




------- Comment #2 from gns at gnome.org  2009-03-12 11:02 PDT -------
This is more general than what we first thought; the problem is webcore handles
whatever the src attribute of element tags as normal resources, so if there is
no plugin available to handle that content type, we end up downloading it. And
it looks like downloading whatever is unknown is the right thing to do; at
least some sites seem to depend on it (sourceforge, for instance).

I asked around in #webkit and confirmed same happens to Safari if you uninstall
the flash plugin and go to that page, so this looks like an issue to be fixed
in WebCore itself.

It seems like Firefox has a default plugin that catches all content types built
in, so it is able to not cause those download requests to happen, and at the
same time present a nice dialog offering to download the missing plugin.


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