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

What I see - on a Mac - is that if you have a document that contains links
to be displayed that reside in another file, you get an error.  HTTP Error,
status = 0

Are there Javascript issues maybe?

MA


On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 4:20 AM John DeSoi <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
>

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