Re: XHR data: and javascript: requests

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:53:58 +0200, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote:
> Opera's behaviour sounds sensible.  I'd throw on javascript: because
> the embedded script could do arbitrary things, whereas the calling
> script presumably expects open() to have predictable side effects.
>
> I suppose that a data:text/javascript,... URI should also throw if it
> the agent would otherwise execute the embedded script.  But I see no
> harm in permitting any other non-executable-content data: URIs to be
> open()ed.

data:text/javascript would act the same as simply loading a JavaScript  
file. There's no execution involved there so that's safe. I've allowed  
data: URIs now:

   http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/


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Anne van Kesteren
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