Re: Whatsapp Web tries to download its files through Chrome

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro igalia com>]

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Andre Costa via epiphany-list 
<epiphany-list gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use Whatsapp Web as a web app on Epiphany, and overall 
> it works as expected. However, when I try to download a file 
> "attached" to a message, Epiphany tries to open a 
> "blob:https://web.whatsapp.com/..."; URL on Chrome, which -- obviously 
> -- fails. Even stranger is the fact that this only seems to happen on 
> Fedora 29: I also use Ubuntu 18.04, and there Epiphany handles the 
> downloads just fine.

Well Fedora has a much more recent Epiphany than Ubuntu, so not 
surprising it might have broken between Ubuntu 18.04 and Fedora 29. 
This reminds me of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788576, 
but that fix predates either distro. I'd more likely suspect the 
changes to how web apps work between 3.28 and 3.30. I would report an 
issue for it on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/issues. Does it 
work outside of web app mode?

If any developers have a Whatapp account and want to try bisecting it, 
that'd be the easiest way to get it fixed.

Michael
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