Re: browser-pane-navigate and file:// URLs

"John DeSoi (as john at desoi dot dev)" <[email protected]> Fri, 29 May 2026 02:20:10 +0000

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On the Mac I don't see any issue browsing links from a page in the LispWorks documentation.

(setf browser (capi:contain (make-instance 'capi:browser-pane :url "file:///Applications/LispWorks%208.1%20(64-bit)/Library/lib/8-1-0-0/manual/html-m/capi/capi-capi-ref-15.htm")))

(capi:apply-in-pane-process browser 'capi:browser-pane-navigate browser "file:///Applications/LispWorks%208.1%20(64-bit)/Library/lib/8-1-0-0/manual/html-m/capi/capi-capi-ref-452.htm#CAPI)simple-pane")


John DeSoi, Ph.D.



> On May 28, 2026, at 5:42 PM, Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> browser-pane-navigate does not like links relative to a file:// url.  The issue is CORS.  But having even a small server always running in your image is a bit annoying.
> 
> Am I out of luck and I do need a http server running in my image to avoid such an issue?
> Any alternatives?