Re: XHR data: and javascript: requests

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:19:08 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> I rather question whether there are actual use cases for this that  
>> justify the complexity in an area of code (security checks) where  
>> complexity and the attendant potential for bugs is to be avoided at all  
>> costs.
>
> Just in case this wasn't clear, consider this implementor feedback that  
> I consider this to be a bad idea.  I've spent a while over the last few  
> years eliminating this sort of special-casing in the Gecko code, and I  
> pretty strongly oppose reintroducing it.

Ok, I removed support for data: URIs in the latest editor draft because  
there are no convincing use cases:

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


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