RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18490 18545
WebKit with libsoup backend can handle only http: protocol 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18545
Summary WebKit with libsoup backend can handle only http: protocol
Luca Ferretti
Reported 2008-04-17 05:28:14 PDT
On my WebKitGtk build with libsoup backend, I'm unable to open local (i.e. on my hard disk or other storage media) HTML files in Epiphany, load gtk-docs in (patched) devhelp and load user docs in (patched) Yelp. A bug against libsoup was opened[1] asking to add support to data: and file: protocols, but it was also closed as WONTFIX, suggesting to use gio/gvfs for any non http: stuff. PS please note that gio/gvfs should also be useful to manage other protocols in browser links, such as mailto: and any other non-Web protocol used to open or start other applications. PPS yes, maybe "Add GIO/GVFS support to WebKitGtk" was a better summary... [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526755
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Luca Ferretti
Comment 1 2008-04-17 12:56:17 PDT
Sorry for this duplicate, the search page don't show unconfirmed bugs by default, so i didn't see previous report... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18490 ***
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