Re: Trigger a DOM event/error when a CSP violation happens.

I've talked to a few developers about deploying CSP, and the request for
some form of violation DOM event has popped up several times. It's
something I'd like to implement if we can find a good way of making it work.

What do you think about making such a feature an opt-in portion of the
policy by adding a `'self'` keyword to the `report-uri` directive? If the
keyword is set, violation events would be fired at the
`document.securityPolicy` object; if not, no violation events would fire
for that policy.

That mechanism might actually also give vendors a mechanism of directing
violations of extensions' policies to the extension rather than the page by
interpreting 'self' in some reasonable way.

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On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Dan Veditz <dveditz@mozilla.com> wrote:

>  On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Eduardo' Vela <evn@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We have found a lot of challenges triaging reports to the point we are
>>> considering disabling CSP since it's useless as we can't effectively
>>> debug
>>> it, this is very important for large scale applications.
>>>
>>
> Are you trying to debug a broken application, or figure out where injected
> content is coming from?
>
> I'm sympathetic to your need and it may be worth experimenting with, but I
> would not want user-applied CSP to report to the page. At least not
> detectably as a "CSP" error; if we want to fire normal existing onerror=
> handlers for images that don't load that may be fine.
>
> I'm not sure what to do about extension-supplied CSP. Again, I would not
> want it reporting to the page, but it would be handy if there were a way to
> report it to the extension. I'm sure extensions can root around in the web
> console messages and find it, but a more direct API might be good.
>
> Such APIs would be out of scope for this WG so I'd just like to state the
> privacy principal that user-agent supplied policies do not report
> violations to the originating server or page content. I'm not against
> firing events at the page for violations of the page's own policy.
>
> -Dan Veditz
>
>