View-source URI scheme: Difference between revisions

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The '''view-source''' protocol is a interesting [[URI scheme]] used in [[HTML]] to create links which display the source code of a web page (usually in a popup window).

For example, this [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] shows the source of the Wikipedia home page:

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== Browser Support ==

[[Mozilla Firefox]] and [[Internet Explorer]] both supported the view-source protocol, but support was dropped from Internet Explorer in [[Windows XP]] SP2 due to security problems.<ref>{{cite web

|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767742.aspx

|title=view-source Protocol

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|date=2005-11-30

|accessdate=2009-02-25

}}</ref> after being fixed. In 2009 a new discovered bug was fixed in [[Mozilla Firefox 3|Firefox 3.0.9]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-17.html|title=MFSA 2009-17: Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: scheme|last=Fleischer|first=Gregory|date= April 21, 2009|publisher=[[Mozilla]]|accessdate=2009-04-22}}</ref>

* [[Mozilla Firefox]] - supported

* a [[Add-on (Mozilla)|Mozilla Firefox extension]] called ''View Source Choice'' add more option to the behavior.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2070|title=View Source Choice|last=mackers|coauthors=Briks|publisher=[[Mozilla Add-ons]]|date=2008-03-24|accessdate=2009-04-22}}</ref>

* [[Netscape]] - supported

* [[Internet Explorer]] [[Internet Explorer 4|4]], [[Internet Explorer 5|5]], and [[Internet Explorer 6|6]] - supported

* Internet Explorer [[Internet Explorer 6|6]], [[Internet Explorer 67|67]], and [[Internet Explorer 8|8]] 7 - not supported after Windows XP SP2

* [[Safari (web browser)|Safari]] 3.2.1 - supported{{fact}}

* [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] 7, 8, 9, 10 - not supported

* [[Google Chrome]] - supported{{fact}}

* [[Epiphany (browser)|Epiphany]] - supported{{fact}}

== References ==