[WebKit-devel] Issue with KNetworkAccessManager

[Michael Howell]

On Sunday 08 March 2009 4:50:37 am Urs Wolfer wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have noticed that there is some bug in KNetworkAccessManager. Debuging
> quite a lot of time helped to track down the issue a bit; but I have not
> found a solution/fix yet. Also there are some bugs reported already which
> are releated to that issue.
>
> The following steps help to reproduce that issue.
>
> Open http://extjs.com. If you compare the result with for example with
> KHTML or Arora, you will see that there are some images missing. Reload the
> page in the WebKit KPart; looks fine then.
> I have found out that the missing images are defined in a stylesheet (
> http://extjs.com/assets/css/extjs.css ). There the image urls are relative.
> All these relative urls fail to load because
> KNetworkAccessManager::createRequest get a wrong request url (for example
> http://extjs.com/images/topbar.png instead of
> http://extjs.com/assets/images/topbar.png ).
> I have really no idea why this happens. Also it seems to be releated to
> caching; that's why it works if you reload the page. Who does create the
> wrong urls?
>
> This bug is a blocker. Many pages do not work correctly because of that
> (another example is GMail).
>
> It would be great if somebody could look into that issue.
>
> Simon, would be nice if you could redirect this mail to the person who
> wrote that QNetworkAccessManager <-> QtWebKit stuff.
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> Bye
> urs
Clearly, KNetworkAccessManager is failing to resolve relative URLs properly. 
Looking into it now.

-- 
Michael Howell
mhowell123 at gmail.com

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