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Re: Multiple separate hosts in web-platform-tests

From: Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 08:34:50 +0900
To: James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk>
Cc: public-test-infra@w3.org
Message-ID: <20170304233450.xzrs7ewvpigq53bg@sideshowbarker.net>
James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk>, 2017-03-03 16:12 +0000:
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/b1ac19c2-5f5e-2b4f-a979-085cca5c2932@hoppipolla.co.uk>
> 
> At the moment our hosts setup is all multiple subdomains of
> web-platform.test (or w3c-test.org, or whatever). Unfortunately this isn't
> ideal as one can set document.domain in any of these hosts to
> "web-platform.test", so they are not isolated enough for testing several
> features (e.g. SecureContexts, process-per-origin).
> 
> I propose we support a second top level host e.g web-platform-alternate.test
> (or a shorter name) to accommodate these scenarios.

I can’t think of any good reason not to do this. For w3c-test.org mirroring
I guess we’d just need to register a new w3c-test-alternate.org or whatever
domain.

  —Mike

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