- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:32:31 +0200
- To: "WebApps WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
We noticed a problem while working on Web Storage. The broadcasting feature allows fork bombing. I personally couldn't think of any other features that allows such a thing. Works against Gecko: http://dump.testsuite.org/2009/storage/demo-001.htm Works against WebKit: http://dump.testsuite.org/2009/storage/demo-001-webkit.htm Internet Explorer seems protected against this particular demo increasing only a slightly in memory usage (though a lot of I/O): http://dump.testsuite.org/2009/storage/demo-001-trident.htm Should we really be introducing such a new feature (broadcasting) as part of sessionStorage/localStorage? -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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