Re: How to get URL of the page opened in the current frame? from Andreas Tolfsen on 2015-09-09 (public-browser-tools-testing@w3.org from July to September 2015)

From: Andreas Tolfsen <ato@mozilla.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 11:55:27 +0100
To: public-browser-tools-testing <public-browser-tools-testing@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAL_dnaW+djF9o=HXFwejLykShmSsy+yj0oq9hL6nKNb-id0VMw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:47 AM, James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote:
> On 07/09/15 16:36, Alexei Barantsev wrote:
>>
>> The "execute script" argument can be applied to this operation in general.
>>
>> I'll better vote +1 to remove it from the specification than to change the
>> semantics.
>
> Having GET session/{session_id}/url return a different url to the one set by
> the same path but with POST would be total nonsense. So if you want to
> change the semantics of one you need to also change the semantics of the
> other.
>
> Not providing a GET for this POST seems like poor design.

I for one am happy to keep GET but to change the semantics to return
the address of the top-level browsing context’s document.  This is the
way I specified it in the first place.

Received on Wednesday, 9 September 2015 10:56:00 UTC