Re: [access-control] Rename spec? from Anne van Kesteren on 2009-01-14 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2009)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:01:45 +0100
To: "Alex Russell" <alex@dojotoolkit.org>
Cc: "Arthur Barstow" <art.barstow@nokia.com>, "WebApps WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.unrrk7ny64w2qv@annevk-t60.oslo.opera.com>

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:25:43 +0100, Alex Russell <alex@dojotoolkit.org>  
wrote:
> Feels like URL vs. URI to me, which for the 80% case is simply bike- 
> shedding.

To be honest, I never quite understood the difference between those two.  
The difference between a domain and an origin however, is very clear:

   domain
     dojotoolkit.org
   origin
     https://dojotoolkit.org:9000


> I appreciate that there is a question of specificity and that your  
> clarification is more correct...but is that a good enough reason to do  
> it?

I would say yes, especially given that since it is a superset, things like

   https://google.com and http://google.com

are same domain, but definitely not same origin. The distinction is pretty  
important.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>

Received on Wednesday, 14 January 2009 23:03:17 UTC