Re: CSP: Drop IP-matching? (was Re: [CSP] URI/IRI normalization and comparison)

Like Mike, I prefer #4 or #1. If we allow IP addresses, I have no problem
telling developers "be consistent in how you represent your addresses".

On Thu Jan 29 2015 at 12:18:48 PM Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Mike West <mkwst@google.com> wrote:
> > We have a few options:
> >
> > 1. We can ignore the problem, and let `http://2/` <http://2/> fail to
> match `img-src
> > 0.0.0.2` and match `img-src 2`.
> > 2. We can normalize the URL, but not the source expression, and let
> > `http://2/` <http://2/> match `img-src 0.0.0.2', but fail to match
> `img-src 2`.
> > 3. We can normalize both, and let `http://2/` <http://2/> match both
> `img-src 0.0.0.2`
> > and `img-src 2`.
> > 4. We can throw away IP addresses entirely.
> >
> > I prefer either #4 or #1. :)
>
> Long term I prefer #3. I suspect we'll update the URL parser at least
> to perform normalization during parsing. Simply to be crystal clear
> about what network activity might take place without any spoofing
> risks.
>
>
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