Re: Blob URL Origin

On May 19, 2014, at 5:33 AM, Frederik Braun <fbraun@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 15.05.2014 22:46, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc
>> <mailto:jonas@sicking.cc>> wrote:
>> 
>>    On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl
>>    <mailto:annevk@annevk.nl>> wrote:
>>> I was thinking about the latter and that would not work if the URL was
>>> revoked. Unless we store origin at parse time.
>> 
>>    Good point. Without using the explicit syntax we couldn't return a
>>    consistent result for the origin.
>> 
> 
> I'm not against the explicit model, but I think it would be very
> desirable if there was a way to get the origin out of the blob URL with
> some sort of API.
> It's not unlikely that developers will implement their own (flawed) URL
> parsing to determine the origin of a blob URL, if it's explicitly in the
> blob URL.


I think this could be done with the existing URL API’s origin attribute so that it does the right thing with a Blob URL: http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-url-origin 

Of course, right now that won’t work in Fx. I wonder if we could fix that? Or add another static function to URL.

—A*

Received on Monday, 19 May 2014 19:31:01 UTC