Re: [SRI] Requiring CORS for SRI

On 05/07/2015 04:28 AM, Frederik Braun wrote:
> On 07.05.2015 08:17, Francois Marier wrote:
>> On 07/05/15 06:17, Tanvi Vyas wrote:
>>> Requiring CORS is an unfortunate constraint because web developers
>>> cannot use SRI on all the third-party javascript embedded on their
>>> page.  They have to reach out to each third-party and ask that they set
>>> the CORS header.
>>
>> Thanks for raising this Tanvi. I'm also worried about the impact that
>> this will have on adoption.
> 
> I am hopeful that we can tackle parts of this with outreach.
> I'm not a great evangelist, but I started talking to the jQuery/MaxCDN
> folks and I'm happy to bring this further.

If we can possibly avoid the hard CORS-dependency, that would be great.
I know TimBL has tried outreach to providers of open data or ontologies
who don't set CORS headers, without overwhelming success -- even though
the resources are designed to be open and mashed-up. Can't we do the
fetch without authentication?

--Wendy

> 
> A lot of other CDNs already send ACAO: *.
> 


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Received on Thursday, 7 May 2015 10:05:47 UTC