Re: Can WebView ignore SSL Certificate errors?

[Lee <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/6/25 3:07 PM, Lee wrote:
> I am loading a website in a WebView that always causes SSL handshake errors and somewhat randomly a SSL Certificate error. I 
> suspect the Certificate error is due to a randomly displayed advertisement on the target website as its domain name is 
> different. This is a sample of the errors including the random Certificate error:
[snip]
> The website eventually loads, but it can take over 60 seconds to do it.
>
> I am certain that I could not inherit WebView and get at its internals with Gambas code. But if I am wrong, I like to know.
>
> Would it be a complex task to add a "Ignore Certificate Errors" flag to WebSettings?

I have discovered that the painfully slow load was not caused by the SSL handshake or the SSL certificate errors. It was caused 
by how I implemented the WebView.

The WebView was not a control on a form, but dynamically created and not displayed. The target page, at times, would load a 
full-screen overly advertisement. The code that displayed that ad apparently couldn't handle a viewport with a size of 0x0 and 
would block loading of the page.

I solved the issue by creating the New WebView, immediately Hiding it, and then giving it some reasonable dimensions. The page 
can still take 10 - 15 seconds to load, but that is acceptable for my use-case.


On a side note if anyone cares: during my research, I found out that QtWebEngine does not yet support extensions:
https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine/ScriptsAndExtensions

Although that feature does appear to be in the works:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwebengine/+/601275
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-61676


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Lee

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