Re: [Bug 22214] How long do permissions persist?

I don't follow your thought.  We have said that it is possible to grant 
a site permanent permissions so that it is free to use a certain device 
whenever you visit it  (HTTPS only, of course). Those permissions 
survive a page reload, don't they?  All I'm asking for is a form of 
permissions that survive a page reload, but don't last forever.  If 
permanent permissions are possible (and presumably don't involve 
massively disruptive architectural changes), why aren't less permanent 
ones also possible?  Just a bit of book-keeping in the UA, I  would think.
On 6/2/2014 4:45 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 2 June 2014 13:37, Jim Barnett <1jhbarnett@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Requiring HTTPS is fine, but I don't want to grant permanent permissions to
>> the site (i.e. permissions that will apply if I revisit the site in a
>> month).   I do want the permissions to survive a page reload.   Can't we
>> make this distinction?  I don't think that "past the next page reload"
>> should imply "until England wins the World Cup."
> Harald's proposal wouldn't have survived a reload.  The expectation
> associated with reload is reset, which implies loss of permissions.
>
> I'm guessing, but I think that the sort of thing you are looking to do
> requires use of the history API and some massively disruptive
> architectural changes: http://html5demos.com/history

-- 
Jim Barnett
Genesys

Received on Monday, 2 June 2014 21:14:45 UTC