Re: Strict mixed content checking (was Re: MIX: Exiting last call?)

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Brad Hill <hillbrad@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I guess that would be implied by the iframe sandbox attribute which would
>>> be included-by-reference into CSP's sandbox directive.  It just seems ugly
>>> that you'd have to set a sandbox and christmas-tree the flags to get this
>>> behavior.  It also seems a bit out-of-pattern to add new flags to
>>> sandboxing in this way.  All the other flags loosen the sandbox.
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>> I don't understand your point here. :/
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree_packet )
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> If the strict checking for descendants is the only behavior you want, you
> have to set sandbox on yourself, then opt-out of everything AND opt-in to
> this new flag.
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Ah, there's the confusion. This isn't a new sandbox flag for exactly that
reason. It's a new attribute on the iframe element. That is, you'd write
`<iframe strict-mixed-content-checking src="...">` (or whatever we called
it).

-mike

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