Re: Access to localhost to be outlawed?

On 2015-03-17 15:14, Randall Leeds wrote:
> What's this got to do with payments? What do DropBox and Spotify depend on that's relevant here?

DropBox and Spotify depend on browser bypass schemes using localhost.

Payments may do that as well as David Nicol writes here:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2014Oct/0194.html

GitHub use another browser bypass scheme:
github-windows://openRepo/https://github.com/cyberphone/webpkisuite-4-android

Anders
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:10 AM Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com <mailto:anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     https://code.google.com/p/__chromium/issues/detail?id=__378566 <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=378566>
>
>     Since popular services like DropBox and Spotify depend on this non-standardized
>     way of bypassing the browser, I think this strengthens my argument that we really
>     need a standard way to do this.
>
>     The time for that is now.
>
>     Anders
>

Received on Tuesday, 17 March 2015 14:48:53 UTC