On 17 March 2015 at 15:48, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > Yes, I also use localhost for payments from the browser. Added my +1 to the call for WONTFIX on this issue. I locking down the browser in this way will hinder a lot of legitimate use cases, and provide minimal incremental security. > > 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 >> >> > >
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