[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-17944) BrowserSim: Use http: protocol instead of file: for accessing local files

[Ilya Buziuk (JIRA)]

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Ilya Buziuk commented on JBIDE-17944:
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[~akazakov], [~maxandersen] Frankly, I do not like the idea of running local files via http for BrowserSim. IMHO our tools (BrowserSim / HTML Preview) should *not* work interchangeably (different tools for different purposes):
- BrowserSim is a browser and should work like a browser (local files should be accessed via file protol - just like other browser do it)
- If user needs to get web root relative path support for BrowserSim then the project should be deployed on server.  After that url should be opened in BrowserSim
- HTML Preview is a WSIWYG editor (So it should cover all server specific stuff like webroot paths etc)

<BrowserSim: Use http: protocol instead of file: for accessing local files
AFAIK ^ this suggestion sounds like transforming BrowserSim to Preview, doesn't it? 

In terms of CordovaSim. If webroot relative path are supported by Phonegap it should be implemented for CordovaSim.

> BrowserSim: Use http: protocol instead of file: for accessing local files
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>
>                 Key: JBIDE-17944
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-17944
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: browsersim
>            Reporter: Alexey Kazakov
>            Assignee: Konstantin Marmalyukov
>
> Currently, BrowserSim works through file: protocol but this protocol doesn't work well with paths relative to the webroot (which start with "/").
> So if a local file contains any links to local resources (css, js, ...) via relative paths then these resources are not available in BrowserSim.
> For example all official ionic example projects use such paths. It makes "open with BrowserSim" feature useless for those projects.
> It would be great if BrowserSim uses http: as our HTML5 preview does.



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