[Interest] bug with # in URL when using setUrl?

[Larry Martell]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> On terça-feira, 15 de março de 2016 07:04:49 PDT Larry Martell wrote:
>> Sorry for not giving more details. It's not a fragment - it's an
>
> You say "it's not a fragment" and then your URL uses a fragment:
>
>>     QString urlStr = "http://foo.bar.com:8000/#/workitem/12345";
>>     QUrl reportUrl(urlStr);
>
> So I'm assuming you're misusing the term and that you did want a fragment.

I realize that using # is typically a fragment, but apparently that is
not how Angular uses that character. If you look at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14319967/angularjs-routing-without-the-hash
you will see what I am referring to.

>> Then it emits a signal, which has that QUrl parameter which causes
>> this code to run:
>>
>>   ui->webView->setUrl(url);
> [cut]
>> The link I referenced (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTWEBKIT-56)
>> mentions a bug with setUrl with URLs with a #, so I was wondering if
>> that is why we are seeing issues on Windows.
>
> It's possible. I don't know anything about webviews and how they process URLs.
> My original statement is correct (the parser is wrong), but it just happens
> it's not your code, it's QWebView.
>
> Unfortunately, if it's buggy, it will remain buggy, no fix.

:-(