Re: ISSUE-38: Discuss no-mixed-content directive

Does anyone object to making this change to the spec?  If not, I'll
put it in my queue of edits to make.

Adam


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Neil Matatall <neilm@twitter.com> wrote:
> That works for me.
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Daniel Veditz <dveditz@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> On 2/5/2013 11:01 AM, Neil Matatall wrote:
>>>
>>> "no-mixed-content": on; works for me
>>
>>
>> I find this to be ugly cruft. Mixed content is a known-bad pattern and if
>> you've opted into a security regime we should assume you do not want that
>> unless you say otherwise. If you don't specify a scheme then a host name
>> should be treated as the same scheme as the document itself. If you're an
>> SSL document and you want to load something insecurely you should explicitly
>> do so by specifying http://host
>>
>> To encourage the use of SSL we could say that if the original document is
>> not secure then an unspecified scheme could match either http or https. Any
>> other scheme is uncommon on the web and should require the web site to
>> explicitly allow (if they are using any of the content-blocking directives).
>>
>> -Dan Veditz
>

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