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Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by untog on Monday December 17, 2018 @04:31PM (#18702393)
WKWebView now does allow that, in a roundabout way, through WKURLSchemeHandler.
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Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by saagarjha on Monday December 17, 2018 @04:40PM (#18702474)
It seems like this can only be used to support URL schemes "that WebKit doesn't know how to handle"?
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Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by untog on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:40PM (#18704564)
Yes, you create your own. In my example of the Instagram activity feed you'd point the view at instagram://activity-view or something like that in order to intercept the request and send a custom response. You could use the same method to "proxy" through to HTTP.
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