Issues viewing safe://dweb with SB 0.15.2

I built 0.15.2 to try it out with safe://dweb before I announce a new post and see quite a few issues. There are now three versions of safe://dweb on the shared vault so it might be a good test for bugs and/or to highlight things that need to be done differently for websites to work on SAFE.

Ideally a versioned/pWeb static website like this would ‘just work’ but I’m not sure if that will be possible, so this is potentially a place to highlight things that work on the web but not SAFE, and how to fix them.

The kinds of things I’m seeing are shown below (using the shared vault):

Default (latest version)

• load safe://dweb: page displays but styles are not loaded
• click on ‘Blog’ at top of page: ‘index.html’ is not loaded so SB shows file listing
• click on ‘index.html’: page displays correctly and then disappears, and then shows 404
• reload the page: same happens again
• click on ‘Blog’ at top of page: page displays correctly
• click on ‘Why Solid on SAFE?’: the post displays correctly
• page navigation links (Home, About, Blog) now seem to work and pages display correctly
• click ‘Blog’ > ‘Why Solid on SAFE?’ > ‘Back to Articles’ (at bottom of page): page doesn’t load index.html and instead displays directory listing

This is before trying to step back through versions.

Try versioning

Clean tab:

• visit ‘safe://dweb’: styles don’t load (as above)
• click < for previous version: address bar shows ?v=1 and the page loads properly (ie including styles)
• click < again: address bar updates to ?v=0 and page renders index.html as text (not HTML).

That’s enough for now!

[happybeing]

Trying out safe://solid-filemanager which worked fine with 0.15.1, I can’t get any page to load as HTML. Typing any of the following into the address bar all show the HTML of index.html as text rather than rendering the HTML:

solid-filemanager
safe://solid-filemanager/index.html
safe://solid-filemanager/index.html?v=2
safe://solid-filemanager/index.html?v=1
safe://solid-filemanager/index.html?v=0
safe://solid-filemanager/?v=2

Same when moving back and forward through versions with < and >

Note:

• safe://dweb is built using React-static
• safe://solid-filemanager is built using React

[joshuef]

15.1 just assumed everything was text/html. We added proper mimetype detection with 15.2, so this issue was just masked prior, I think.

Good to hear that’s going now. 👍