add functionality, to show html files from the local installation

svn path=/trunk/; revision=11213

1 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gtk/webbrowser.c b/gtk/webbrowser.c
index 58c5d0322e..21f26dd6a8 100644
--- a/gtk/webbrowser.c
+++ b/gtk/webbrowser.c
@@ -169,3 +169,52 @@ strreplace (const gchar *string,
 }
 
 #endif /* MUST_LAUNCH_BROWSER_OURSELVES */
+
+/** Convert local absolute path to uri.
+ *
+ * @param filename to (absolute pathed) filename to convert
+ * @return a newly allocated uri, you must g_free it later
+ */
+gchar *
+filename2uri(gchar *filename)
+{
+    int i = 0;
+    gchar *file_tmp;
+    GString *filestr;
+
+
+    filestr = g_string_sized_new(200);
+
+    /* this escaping is somewhat slow but should working fine */
+    for(i=0; filename[i]; i++) {
+        switch(filename[i]) {
+        case(' '):
+            g_string_append(filestr, "%20");
+            break;
+        case('%'):
+            g_string_append(filestr, "%%");
+            break;
+        case('\\'):
+            g_string_append_c(filestr, '/');
+            break;
+            /* XXX - which other chars need to be escaped? */
+        default:
+            g_string_append_c(filestr, filename[i]);
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    /* prepend URI header "file:" appropriate for the system */
+#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
+    /* XXX - how do we handle UNC names (e.g. //servername/sharename/dir1/dir2/capture-file.cap) */
+    g_string_prepend(filestr, "file:///");
+#else
+    g_string_prepend(filestr, "file:");
+#endif
+
+    file_tmp = filestr->str;
+
+    g_string_free(filestr, FALSE /* don't free segment data */);
+
+    return file_tmp;
+}
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