Re: Data URL Origin (Was: Blob URL Origin)

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
>> Given that workers execute script in a fairly contained way, it might be okay?
>
> Worker scripts aren't going to be very contained as we add more APIs
> to workers. They can already read any data from the server (through
> XHR) and much local data (through IDB).
>
> I'd definitely want them not to inherit the origin, the question is if
> that's web compatible at this point. Maybe we can allow them to
> execute but as a sandboxed origin?

Good point. We'll have to investigate how much we can do there. I
followed up on the WHATWG list with regards to aligning Fetch and HTML
with the new policy. I also filed a bug on Gecko.

*  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2014Jun/0002.html
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018872


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