On Jun 24, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Dan Wood wrote: > I'm seeing an odd behavior, and I wonder if it is a regression in Safari 5's > webkit, and if there is a workaround. > > I have an HTML string which I have loaded up from a remote website, and > modified slightly to include an image with a source of a local file:// URL. > > Then I try to load it into my webview with -[WebFrame > loadHTMLString:baseURL:]. I pass in the base URL so that the images with > relative paths will show properly.
What is the scheme of the base URL you're passing in? > This works fine, except that my file:// image does not load! It's not even > requested, if I monitor the resource load delegate! > > The markup seems fine, and it has definitely been parsed when I examine my > WebView with the inspector. Just, no request for the image. WebKit considers certain URL schemes to be "local". One of these is file:. Pages with non-local schemes aren't allowed to load resources from local schemes for security reasons. (E.g., it would be bad if http://www.example.com/ could use <iframe src=file:///etc/passwd> to read your passwords!) My guess is that the base URL you're passing has a non-local scheme. > If I try to load the HTML with a nil base URL, then my file://-URL-based > image shows up just fine. When you pass no base URL, WebKit makes up a unique URL that uses the applewebdata: scheme. WebKit treats this scheme as a local scheme, so you can load other local resources (such as file: resources). I believe this is done for compatibility reasons. > This seems like either like a regression -- I can't believe that a base URL > would affect being able to load up a local URL. Or is this actually as > expected? As I've described above, this is expected. > Any ideas on a workaround? (I tried splicing in <base href=...> instead of > the base URL; the problem is that the initial request becomes about:blank, so > links to "#" sections don't work. I guess I can put my local image up on the > web...) One workaround is to use a custom URL scheme for your base URL, and to tell WebKit to treat that scheme as a local scheme. You can do this with +[WebView registerURLSchemeAsLocal:]. A potentially better workaround is to use a custom URL scheme to load local resources, rather than using file: directly. An NSURLProtocol subclass can be used to implement this. I say this is "potentially better" because you can make your NSURLProtocol subclass restrict which files can be loaded (while with file: you'd be allowing any file on the whole system to be loaded). -Adam
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