UNC path is misinterpreted in procedure TChromium.LoadURL

[lindor]

Hello.
I'm using the latest CEF4Delphi on Tokyo 10.2.3 and I have a problem with the
<<procedure TChromium.LoadURL(const aURL : ustring; const aFrameName : ustring = '')>> once the HTML file is in the network, e.g. "\\t-sw19-ts.com\Data\XXX\HTML_Dialogs\Viewer3d.html".
If UNC path is connected to a network drive, then I can map that and it works correctly. If UNC path is not connected to any network drive, then the UNC path is interpreted incorrectly. I prepare the UNC path and then send along as "file://///t-sw25-ts.com/Data/XXX/HTML_Dialogs/Viewer3d.html" parameter.

After OnLoadEnd handler I see in ICefFrame record that ICefFrame .URL was changed to " file://t-sw25-ts.com/Data/XXX/HTML_Dialogs/Viewer3d.html".

As a result, the object is not loaded in 3-D Viewer.
Why are the "//" of the URL truncated, can I suppress this if the URL is a UNC path?

kind regards

[salvadordf]

Hi,

Build the MiniBrowser demo and click on the top-right button with 3 lines. Then select the "Open a file with a FILE URL..." option.

Select your HTML file from the network folder (not the mapped unit) and click the Ok button.

I just did all this and it worked fine but the generated URL has only 2 "/" characters.

MiniBrowser only added "file:///" to the original path and CEF removed some "/" automatically.
As far as I know, there's no way to disable this feature.

Chromium limits what you can load with FILE URLs for security reasons. Perhaps this issue is caused by this.
If this is the case I would try to register a custom scheme to load files without security problems.

Try registering "http" or "https" as if they were a custom scheme to load those files. See the SchemeRegistrationBrowser demo for all the details.

[lindor]

Hi,
thanks for the quick reply. Yes, you are right, the problem is probably because the file URL and the Chromium application were in different network environments. I will follow your recommendation and find a suitable solution in the SchemeRegistrationBrowser demo.

kind regards