BZ> Note that if you do what the view-source window does in Mozilla to load BZ> Mozilla's built-in view-source into a display:none docshell or something BZ> and then grab the text out of that, it'll be about what you want (though BZ> characters, not bytes, and not as fast as just getting the bytes). This BZ> preserves whitespace, all sorts of malformed stuff, etc.
EB> Thanks, I'll try that approach, but I need more specifics on "grab EB> the text out of that". I have an nsIDocShell that has been loaded EB> in the same manner as the view-source window. Now, how do I get the EB> text out of it? I've done a bit of research. The trail starts at <http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/browser/base/content/browser.js#1820>. BrowserViewSourceOfDocument() QIs nsIWebNavigation to an nsIWebPageDescriptor. The "currentDescriptor" property is extracted and passed as the "pageCookie" to BrowserViewSourceofURL() along with the current uri for the nsIWebNavigation and the charset. BrowserViewSourceofURL() calls through to: openDialog("chrome://global/content/viewSource.xul", "_blank", "scrollbars,resizable,chrome,dialog=no", url, charset, pageCookie); This eventually calls <http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpfe/browser/resources/content/viewsource.js#96>, which uses the pageCookie (here called "arg"): PageLoader.loadPage(arg, pageLoaderIface.DISPLAY_AS_SOURCE); It turns out this is actually implemented by nsDocShell.cpp, (whew! finally we're back in C++ land). nsDocShell::LoadPage(nsISupports *aPageDescriptor, PRUint32 aDisplayType) This QIs aPageDescriptor to an nsISHEntry (session history entry), QIs that to an nsIHistoryEntry, gets the URI from the nsIHistoryEntry, prepends "view-source:" to the URI, clones the URI, sets it as the current URI for the nsISHEntry, and sets the parent property of the nsISHEntry to nsnull ad the isSubFrame property to PR_FALSE. Then it calls through to ::LoadHistoryEntry, passing the nsISHEntry. I think this adequately describes how ViewSource differs from a regular page load, but I still don't see how to get the text. Boris? Help? Thanks, Ed _______________________________________________ mozilla-embedding mailing list mozilla-embedding@mozilla.org http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-embedding
