Re: Whatsapp Web tries to download its files through Chrome

[Andre Costa <andre ocosta gmail com>]

Hi Michael, thanks for the reply!

Good catch: it does work outside of web app mode. This might be a good starting point to debug it... I will follow your suggestion and file a bug report.

Regards,

Andre

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 8:45 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro igalia com> wrote:

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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