I am working off the Electron quickstart using Electron 2.0.9 and am just trying to find a way to get a webview tag to run in Sandbox mode.
However I can't seem to remedy this issue. I have searched for possible solutions but the only thing I came across was here and this issue as shown was closed and there was something merged over a year ago. So clearly that'd be in 2.0.9 and I wouldn't be having this issue.
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Sandbox Test</title>
<style>
webview {
width: 100%;
height: 500px;
border: solid 1px black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<input id="urlInput" type="url" value="https://www.google.com/" placeholder="Enter Url">
<button onclick="setUrl();">Load Page</button>
<br>
<div id="webviewDiv">
</div>
<script>
// You can also require other files to run in this process
// require('./renderer.js');
function setUrl()
{
url = document.getElementById("urlInput").value;
document.getElementById("webviewDiv").innerHTML = '<webview src="' + url + '"></webview>';
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
main.js
// Modules to control application life and create native browser window
const {app, BrowserWindow} = require('electron')
// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
let mainWindow
function createWindow () {
// Create the browser window.
mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
webPreferences: {
sandbox: true
},
width: 800,
height: 600
})
// and load the index.html of the app.
mainWindow.loadFile('index.html')
// Open the DevTools.
// mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools()
// Emitted when the window is closed.
mainWindow.on('closed', function () {
// Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
// in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
// when you should delete the corresponding element.
mainWindow = null
})
}
// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.on('ready', createWindow)
// Quit when all windows are closed.
app.on('window-all-closed', function () {
// On OS X it is common for applications and their menu bar
// to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
app.quit()
}
})
app.on('activate', function () {
// On OS X it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
// dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
if (mainWindow === null) {
createWindow()
}
})
// In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process
// code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here.
package.json
{
"name": "electron-quick-start",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "A minimal Electron application",
"main": "main.js",
"scripts": {
"start": "electron . --enable-mixed-sandbox"
},
"repository": "https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start",
"keywords": [
"Electron",
"quick",
"start",
"tutorial",
"demo"
],
"author": "GitHub",
"license": "CC0-1.0",
"devDependencies": {
"electron": "2.0.9"
}
}
So if anyone has any idea on possible reasons as to this being like this or can point to something I somehow missed on my attempts to fix this please do tell.
OS - Windows Server 2008 R2 (uses the same Kernel as Windows 7) (everything else in electron seems to work like normal so I doubt it's the OS.
It seems that the ability to use tag in sandbox didn't work until the 3.0.0 beta 3 release. Even though as in my previous post there seems to have been a merged change from over a year before the 3.0.0 beta 3 was released. Maybe this is somehow related to semantic versioning in someway so they had to wait until the next major release to add support for it.