Re: [webappsec] CSP META tag support - keep or remove?

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Giorgio Maone <g.maone@informaction.com> wrote:
> On 03/04/2012 03:33, Adam Barth wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Devdatta Akhawe <dev.akhawe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> To me, applications such as browser extensions (e.g., NoScript and
>>> AdBlock) also count as `web' applications. This falls in the
>>> "documents loaded by non-HTTP methods." Given the massive popularity
>>> of these extensions, I would say it is a significant use case
>>> (certainly not the most common case, but definitely warranting a say)
>>
>> Note: Chrome has added support for Content-Security-Policy natively in
>> its extension system:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/contentSecurityPolicy.html
>
> I suppose this doesn't cover the case of an extension (such as NoScript)
> which may want to force a CSP policy *on unrelated web pages*, e.g. by
> inserting a <META> element from a content script.

Yeah, it doesn't.  Have you had much success doing that?  I would
expect it to be tricky.

Adam

Received on Thursday, 5 April 2012 00:42:09 UTC