- From: Tobie Langel <tobie@fb.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:09:34 +0000
- To: Brady Eidson <beidson@apple.com>
- CC: Eric U <ericu@google.com>, Kinuko Yasuda <kinuko@chromium.org>, "public-webapps@w3.org WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 11/5/12 6:47 PM, "Brady Eidson" <beidson@apple.com> wrote: > >> And/or coming up with an API to allow application developers >> to close sessions on a per origin basis and benefit from related >> security/privacy guarantees (wiping-out session storage, cookies, etc.). > >Sites can already clean up individual session-ey nuggets on a >case-by-case basis. > >I'm not sure I like the idea of giving them the nuclear option as they'll >just start using that liberally instead of thinking things through. This >could cause excess i/o and/or lock contention where such semantics are >defined. Nuclear options have privacy guarantees which other options don't have. That's also something to consider. --tobie
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