WebKitProtocol

Introduction

"WebKit Remote Debugging Protocol" is a Google Chrome/Chromium debug protocol. You will find its description at http://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging.

This protocol is natively used by in-browser Developer Tools. Historically it succeeds ChromeDevToolsProtocol.

Here its Java client implementation is called WIP (in source code and in docs).

How to start Google Chrome/Chromium

chrome --remote-debugging-port=<port>

How to attach from Debugger

A launch configuration named "WebKit Protocol" should be created (see tutorial).

How to attach from SDK

Use the following create method:

org.chromium.sdk.wip.WipBrowserFactory.INSTANCE.createBrowser(...)

WIP Backends

Note that the project contains several alternative protocol implementations for the different versions. They are deployed as "WIP Backends" (see main article).

Protocol Name

Protocol is called 'WebKit Remote Debuggin Protocol'. You can be sure that you are using this protocol, if you are starting Google Chrome/Chromium with the following parameter: --remote-debugging-port=<port>

Compare with ChromeDevTools Protocol.

References

Main page: http://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging.

Blog posts:

• Remote debugging with Chrome Developer Tools, The Chromium Blog, May 9th, 2011,
• WebKit Remote Debugging, Surfin' Safari, May 9th, 2011.