Xamarin.forms: [WPF] Xamarin.Forms WPF load local html throw ArgumentException with message "Relative URIs are not allowed"

Created on 12 Feb 2018 · 5Comments · Source: xamarin/Xamarin.Forms

Description

Load local html with the following code will throw ArgumentException with message "Relative URIs are not allowed":

var source = new HtmlWebViewSource()
{
    BaseUrl = "https://www.google.com/",
     Html = @"<html><body> <h1>Xamarin.Forms</h1> <p>Welcome to WebView.</p> </body>
   </html>"
};
WebView.Source = source;

Steps to Reproduce

Create Xamarin.Forms project
Follow instruction how to create Xamarin.Forms WPF
Add WebView control and use above code

Expected Behavior

Show web page

Actual Behavior

throw ArgumentException with message "Relative URIs are not allowed"

Basic Information

Version with issue: 3.0.0-ci0011
IDE: VIsual Studio 2017 15.5.3
Platform Target Frameworks: WPF

WPF bug

Source

yunusefendi52

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PureWeen on 13 Feb 2018

I am still confuse, what xamarin.forms version should I use to test prelease, is it 3.0.x or 2.6.x? I see that xf 3.0.x has Xamarin.Forms.Platform.WPF merged to it and 2.6.x hasn't

yunusefendi52 on 13 Feb 2018

For now my solution was to create my own WebView renderer and copy all WebViewRenderer, change the code from https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/blob/b96f65bdd9e7e931971338b122a8940e2a35ccc7/Xamarin.Forms.Platform.WPF/Renderers/WebViewRenderer.cs#L74-L77 to