[Interest] QWebFrame::toHtml() is encoding <> automatically

Tue Apr 2 16:00:31 CEST 2013

Hi Richard!

Nope, content-type isn't the case here, even if I provide a

header ("Content-Type: text/html");

It doesn't make any change.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Richard Moore <rich at kde.org> wrote:
> On 2 April 2013 12:36, Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Below is a testing php script,
>>
>> <?php
>>     echo $_GET['abc'], "<br/>";
>>     echo htmlentities($_GET['abc']);
>> ?>
>>
>> If I retrieve the contents of that page with chromium browser, showing
>> the source code reveals contents like this:
>>
>> <><br/><>
>>
>> But with QWebFrame::toHtml(), all <> are encoded, and I got:
>>
>> <html><head></head><body><><br><> </body></html>
>>
>> That's weird, anyone know how to "stop" QtWebkit from encoding them?
>
> Your script is sending completely invalid HTML, and from the looks of
> it not setting the content type. This means you should expect the
> results to be completely undefined. In this case, it looks as if
> QtWebkit is treating it as plain text, wheras I can't even tell what
> chromium is treating it as!
>
> Regards
>
> Rich.
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