Webkit GTK: Exposing HTTP headers

Question

After experimenting with WebkitGTK in C, and looking through the documentation, I see that most of the signals/events relating to the loading of webpages are oriented around when a page begins loading or finishes loading.

However, I don't see anyway that the actual HTTP headers of a request are exposed. Therefore, I don't see anyway to detect, for example, if webkit_web_view_load_uri loaded a page with a 404 error. The error reporting mechanisms seem only concerned with network errors, rather than HTTP errors. In fact, I don't see anything to do with HTTP exposed in the WebkitGTK API at all.

Am I just missing something here? I even grepped the entire webkit include directory for http and HTTP and nothing relevant comes up. So is there some way to determine whether a downloaded page is an HTTP error (some other error code other than 200 OK)?

Answer 1

WebKit is just the layout engine, and does not include HTTP support. In the WebKitGTK port HTTP is handled by libsoup. You get the SoupSession using webkit_get_default_session and proceed from there.