On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:

> You can probably make the case on bugs.webkit.org for a change like this
> to HistoryItem by observing that Apple's WebKit API also has a similar
> LoadRequest method that allows for request headers to be set.
> It makes for stronger justification for a change to WebCore when you can
> express your argument in terms of something that would be possible using
> Apple's WebKit API.
>
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/WebKit/Classes/WebFrame_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/WebFrame/loadRequest
> :
>


Thanks Darin.  I'll submit it as a WebKit bug and see where it goes.


>
> -Darin
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> WebHistoryItem is a thin wrapper around WebCore::HistoryItem.  So, you
>> would need to change WebCore::HistoryItem.  I don't know if this is
>> something that would be accepted upstream or not.  Perhaps a
>> WebCore::HistoryItem should just hold a WebCore::ResourceRequest.
>> -Darin
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Marshall Greenblatt <
>> magreenbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We currently have the ability to set extra HTTP header fields in
>>> WebURLRequest.  However, the extra HTTP header fields are not stored in
>>> WebHistoryItem and are therefore lost after navigation. This is a problem
>>> for applications that use extra HTTP headers to pass important information
>>> to the server. Does anyone object to us storing extra HTTP header fields in
>>> WebHistoryItem so that we can re-send them when navigating the history?  If
>>> not, I'll create a patch to add this functionality.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Marshall
>>>
>>> >>>
>>>
>>
>

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