Awesome, Gavin, thank you! Setting the last parameter of the load_string() method works. http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk/stable/webkitgtk-webkitwebview.html#webkit-web-view-load-string
Now I just need to supply the actual file path - if that content is already saved as a file, apparently, or Gedit's "working directory" for unsaved files, as a default. Any hints on where I can find that information? (Are there any API docs of Gedit anywhere?) Thanks so much, Peter 2015-01-19 22:45 GMT+01:00 Gavin Lambert <[email protected]>: > On 20 January 2015 09:56, quoth Peter Bittner: >> Now it looks like WebKit is rendering images from remote resources (e.g. >> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/2259897373_d47ecf0983_o_d.png) >> fine, but local images (e.g. docs/reStPlugin.png) just display as an empty >> box. Interestingly, the size of the box corresponds to the real size of > the >> image, but the image itself is not displayed. >> >> The box around the image is displayed only when the file exists, otherwise >> only the ALT-text is visible. Looks like WebKit reads the image dimensions >> out of the image file. I've tried setting a <base href="file://..."> tag > in >> the HTML head section, but that makes things worse ("** Message: console >> message: @318: Not allowed to load local >> resource: file:///home/.../doc/reStPlugin.png") >> >> Some details and a screenshot are available from a bug report at >> https://github.com/bittner/gedit-reST-plugin/issues/7 >> Carlos from the webkit-dev mailing list suggested "passing the right base > URL >> to the load method" may be missing >> (https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2015-January/027156.html). > > It's a standard security feature of modern browsers to block all access to > file:// URIs from pages loaded from anything other than a file:// URI. So > if you want to render the content, you have to let the browser know that > it's loading a local file. If you're passing the file:// URI to > webkit_web_view_load_uri, this should be automatic. If you're using > webkit_web_view_load_string, you need to specify an appropriate file:// URI > as the base in the final parameter. (This does not need to actually exist > as a file, but it will be used as the base for relative links.) > > It's not sufficient to use <base href> in the HTML content itself, as this > is inherently untrustworthy for this purpose -- imagine if an HTML file on > the public internet specified this, and then started trying to load your > local files. > > You *might* also need to set the "enable-file-access-from-file-uris" > property to true on webkit_web_settings as well, but I'm not sure exactly > what this affects. Try it without that first. > > _______________________________________________ webkit-gtk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk
