[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 133605] [GTK] 8tracks.com triggers annoying pop-up window/installation of "About protocol source plugin" (GStreamer?)

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133605





--- Comment #10 from Jiří Janoušek <janousek.jiri at gmail.com>  2014-06-26 13:08:12 PST ---
> Have you contacted the 8tracks webmaster? This clearly looks like a bug in their code, the media elements are not supposed to play about: urls...

I could contact the webmaster. However, the about: url causes troubles only in WebKit2Gtk and webmasters generally don't care about minor web browsers :-( The same issue affects also Jango.com and maybe other websites.

> OTOH I think we could also have a black-list for the unsupported protocols within the player, that would prevent the codec installer from kicking in. :)

About: URLs are generally considered as safe placeholder urls that do nothing, so it would make sense to catch them and don't attempt to play them :-)

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