1539363 - View Source API

Status: NEW

(GeckoView :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

As a fallback you can simply prepend view-source: to the URL, but doing it properly means going through ViewSourceUtils, which means a GeckoView API is needed?

Comment 1

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

I wonder what the best way to implement that API would be? It can't be a simple viewSource() method on the Session, because that causes complications when wanting to view the source in a new Session. In that case you'd either have to first load the page normally in a new session before being able to call viewSource(), which is stupid, or if you simply intercept onLoadRequest() and then load the URI manually in a new Session that means that ViewSourceUtils and whatever additional work that is doing would be bypassed same as if you just tried directly loading "view-source:" + original URL.

So to me that would seem to indicate that perhaps it should be a load flag instead?

Comment 2

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

Yup, load flag seems reasonable to me.

Comment 3

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Tasks and enhancements should have severity N/A.