Re: Remove paths from CSP?

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@coredump.cx>wrote:

> > Neither GitHub nor Facebook use paths in their policies today.
>
> Well, I don't think it's fair to use this as an argument given that
> paths aren't a part of CSP 1.0 and probably very few people outside
> this list even know they were supported; the awareness of potential
> weaknesses on origin-scoped CSP is probably about as limited; and the
> number of observed attacks that leveraged origin scoping weaknesses in
> the past is very close to zero.
>

It's fair only in terms of responding to the claim that CSP without paths
doesn't have value. :)

(Plus, glass houses, stones: it's nor like non-path-based CSP is
> enjoying widespread adoption at this point to begin with, so we should
> be careful with using current adoption as a proxy for future
> usefulness.)


Very fair point.

-mike

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