Re: Blob URL Origin

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> In at least Chrome and Firefox, blob: acts like filesystem: and can't
> be loaded cross-origin. Even in cases when we normally permit loading
> of cross-origin resources like in <img> and <script>.
>
> This has been to prevent websites from being able to steal data by
> guessing UUIDs (at least the Gecko UUID generator isn't guaranteed to
> produce unguessable UUIDs).
>
> So the question of <canvas> tainting doesn't really come into play,
> since you can't even load the cross-origin blob: into an image and
> draw it into the canvas.

Again fair, but do we consider that something we want to fix or do we
want to enshrine this?


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Received on Monday, 19 May 2014 09:00:45 UTC