Re: minibrowser and Y! mail

Hello!

SSL. No SSL - no gmail and other populair services.

2006/8/10, Philippe De Swert <[email protected]>:
> Hello Dan,
>
> > (This posting is basically just a cut and paste job
> > from a posting I made earlier on the OESF OZ/GPE forum
> > as Koen told me that you guys don't check that board.
> > Is this true?)
>
> Well I think Koen is really the only one who checks it out. I myself am not to
> keen about forums.
>
> > no search function and GPE-minibrowser was nigh on
> > useless as I couldn't access Yahoo! mail which is
> > sometimes the only site I'll check. I would presume
> > from that that it also cannot handle Hotmail and Gmail
> > either yet?
>
> The problem lies in the cookie handling of gtk-webcore. ATM cookies are
> required for all those webservices so they don't work/
>
> > I was speaking to Florian about this and he said no
> > work had been done on the minibrowser recently. I'm
> > sure most will agree that e-mail is one of the primary
> > uses of a computer/PDA for most people so I would say
> > that getting this working should be a priority for the
> > GPE team. Firefox is too memory intensive for PDAs.
>
> Well I did some work on the back-end (gtk-webcore) which resulted in some
> patches, like fixing the error handling. I also enabled cookies. Unfortunately
>  the cookies only get parsed, but no information is exchanged decently. As I
> have no clue how to make this work (as I do not know anything about cookie
> handling) this has been suspended for the moment. I also have to admit I have
> been quite non-active recently, but this will change probabely once winter
> comes. I hope one day we can make it work, or that one of the other
> khtml/webkit projects gets hooks to make it possible to use a more mature
> rendering library for gpe-mini-browser.
>
> Regards,
>
> Philippe
>
> | Philippe De Swert
> |
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