In all the time I took to research and work on this, apparently Apple removed the check 3 hours ago: https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/203695
Thanks to Darryl Pogue for showing this to me! On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... we dupe this Radar [1]. There is some related research and JIRA > discussion here [2] > > I will outline the steps you need to do below. > > If we don't ask for this now, enabling this feature will probably go in > iOS 11, just like loading file urls in WKWebView (support was non-existent > in iOS 8, added in iOS 9 with > WKWebView->loadFileURL:allowingReadAccessToURL:) > > To allow localStorage to work with file URLs in WKWebView, Apple just > needs to allow this private API "WKWebViewConfiguration-> > _setAllowUniversalAccessFromFileURLs" to be public [3] > > ---- > STEPS TO FILE A RADAR > > 1. Sign in to https://bugreport.apple.com with your Apple ID > 2. Choose "New" from the toolbar > 3. Choose "iOS SDK" > 4. Copy the details from link [1] into the appropriate fields > 5. Make sure you mention that it doesn't work in iOS 10 beta 3 (the latest > beta as of this writing) > 6. Make sure you mention the fix is to enable this private API to be > public - see link [3] > ---- > > [1] https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=5562982134185984 > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-11524 > [3] > https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/74c39d225ee2f6465806db45dedb8f351b56c7bd/Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/Cocoa/WKWebViewConfigurationPrivate.h#L52 > > >
