Re: Blob URL Origin

• From: Frederik Braun <fbraun@mozilla.com>
• Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 09:32:21 +0200
• To: Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
• CC: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, jonas <jonas@sicking.cc>, Anne Van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
• Message-ID: <53707905.20509@mozilla.com>

On 09.05.2014 23:29, Arun Ranganathan wrote:
> ..
> So this is problematic: we don’t have a common syntax on the web, and
> even implementations which share code don’t do it exactly the same. Of
> course, blob: URLs aren’t supposed to be human readable, or really
> viewed by the developer. But not having a good way to denote origin
> within the URL that signifies the origin of the incumbent settings
> object is problematic for Fetch and Parse specifications that need
> origin information.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a programmatic way to probe if a blob
URI belongs to a specified origin or not?
If they had an origin attribute one could compare them to
location.origin or so. But well, they are DOMStrings and not objects...

Received on Monday, 12 May 2014 07:32:52 UTC