I have an app using the WebKitGTK1 API with WebKit-GTK 2.4.9 on Linux. (This is the current version in Debian Jessie and versions 2.5+ don't support the v1 API.)
I've implemented a custom URI scheme for loading entire basic page content by using a resource-request-starting handler, which parses the incoming URI via webkit_web_resource_get_uri and if it matches the custom scheme, generates some HTML content and calls webkit_network_request_set_uri to replace the original URI with a base64'd data: URI containing the content to render. (This is similar to the accepted answer of this question.)
This mostly works well, and my handler is called on each request (including repeated requests with the same original URI) and generates the correct content -- but somewhere upstream the browser appears to render only the first returned data for any given original URI, even if the data URI I generate is different.
Possibly of note is that webkit_web_resource_get_uri returns the original non-data: URI even after calling webkit_network_request_set_uri, so I assume this URI is being cached, and in turn is then being used as a key in some higher-level component to cache the data instead of using the real URI from the request.
Unfortunately this appears to be a G_PARAM_CONSTRUCT_ONLY property and there doesn't appear to be any public API to set and/or clear it so that it uses the rewritten URI of the request instead. Is there some way to force GTK to set the property after construction anyway? As far as I can tell it does have a setter method internally, and the getter would do the Right Thing™ if the internal property were reset to NULL.
Or is there some better method to force WebKit to render the new data: URI despite anything it thinks to the contrary?
For the moment I've worked around it by including the values that make it generate different data in the original custom URI (passed to webkit_web_view_load_uri or in links in the generated page). This does work but it's a bit ugly, and could be problematic if I forget to add something in the future, or if something changes generation but is not known in advance. It seems a bit silly that it goes to all the trouble of raising the event that generates the correct data, only to throw it away later, (presumably) due to an URI comparison on the wrong URI.
I suppose using a known-unique value (eg. sequential incrementing id) would also work, and resolve some of the unknown-in-advance issues, but that's no less ugly.
