Package: wkhtmltopdf Version: 0.12.6-1 Severity: important Hello,
Thank you for packaging wkhtmltopdf! wkhtmltopdf version 0.12.6 blocks by default access to local files (note the "Warning: Blocked access to file"): $ wkhtmltopdf test.html test.pdf Loading page (1/2) Warning: Blocked access to file Error: Failed to load about:blank, with network status code 301 and http status code 0 - Protocol "about" is unknown Printing pages (2/2) Done Exit with code 1 due to network error: ProtocolUnknownError Using --enable-local-file-access makes it work: $ wkhtmltopdf --enable-local-file-access test.html test.pdf Loading page (1/2) Printing pages (2/2) Done However, earlier version of wkhtmltopdf did not support --enable-local-file-access, and using it would cause it to error out complaining about usage of a non-existing option. A program calling wkhtmltopdf for rendering needs to figure out when --enable-local-file-access is needed and when it's harmful, here's an example use case: https://github.com/Truelite/python-a38/issues/6 To avoid needing to parse and compare --version output, I had opted to parse the output of --help: if the option was documented, then it was needed; if it was not documented, then it wasn't supported. The version of wkhtmltopdf currently in stable requires --enable-local-file-access but does not document it (!!) causing both a conundrum for users who get an error message and no documentation on the option that would fix it, and for software trying to figure out the effective CLI interface for manipulating wkhtmltopdf as a backend tool. Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages wkhtmltopdf depends on: ii libc6 2.31-13 ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6 ii libqt5core5a 5.15.2+dfsg-9 ii libqt5gui5 5.15.2+dfsg-9 ii libqt5network5 5.15.2+dfsg-9 ii libqt5printsupport5 5.15.2+dfsg-9 ii libqt5svg5 5.15.2-3 ii libqt5webkit5 5.212.0~alpha4-11 ii libqt5widgets5 5.15.2+dfsg-9 ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6 Versions of packages wkhtmltopdf recommends: ii tigervnc-standalone-server [xserver] 1.11.0+dfsg-2 ii xserver-xephyr [xserver] 2:1.20.11-1 ii xserver-xorg [xserver] 1:7.7+22 wkhtmltopdf suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
