Re: CfC: Mixed Content to PR; deadline July 6th.

Ok. If both Brian and Anne agree, then I'm almost certainly in the wrong.

I'll poke at MIX this afternoon to bake in the passthrough loophole
discussed here. It's not entirely clear to me how to distinguish a
`fetch()` issued from the Document from the `fetch(event.request)` issued
from the Service Worker (as they'll both have a `context` of "fetch",
right? and both point to the same `window`?). Perhaps it makes sense to
divide the "fetch" context into "fetch" and "passthrough-fetch" in the same
way we divided "image" and "image-set"?

-mike

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On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org> wrote:

> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
>> Mi ke West wrote:
>
> > (Note also that in my ever so brief (and probably incompetent)
>> > experimentation, I'm getting mixed content errors when doing anything
>> other
>> > than a passthrough fetch for insecure content. Maybe I misunderstood
>> Alex,
>> > or he misunderstood me?)
>>
>> If by passthrough you mean fetch(event.request) that'd make sense to me.
>>
>
> I think that that is a compromise worth considering: Allow mixed-content
> fetch in a service worker only if the fetch is forwarding a request
> generated from the browser's normal fetching of a <img>, <video>, or
> <audio> source, and otherwise block it.
>
> IMO, it doesn't make sense to advance this document to PR if it describes
> something where there is not agreement and that people don't intend to
> implement. I wish people agreed with what the spec says, but specs are not
> supposed to be wishful thinking. I think pushing the current document
> forward is likely to result in worse (less strict) mixed content blocking
> in real implementations than if we took the time to properly resolve the
> issue.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
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