Re: [REFERRER] policy inheritance via javascript: URI and new document

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Jochen Eisinger <eisinger@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:19 AM Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Sid Stamm <sid@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> > So what do you think?  Copy the referrer policy or not?  I'm leaning
>> > towards not, since we're creating a new document and the policy,
>> > delivered via HTML tag or CSP, is kind of associated with the document
>> > (not the principal).
>>
>> I think we should copy since before that new top-level browsing
>> context is navigated, it's about:blank and could not have a meaningful
>> policy set in any kind of way.
>
> you could still run some script on about:blank that inserts a meta tag

The given case is

  <a href=... target=_blank>

for which it seems unlikely you can execute script before the newly
created browsing context navigates unless you rewrite what clicking
that link does.


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Received on Monday, 27 April 2015 16:07:02 UTC