On 19.09.2013 20:30, Daniel Veditz wrote:
>> The only question that remains, is how hard is it to apply a CSP to
>> non-HTTP documents and XUL documents (like about:newtab)?
> 
> At the moment, hard; trivial once we support the CSP 1.1 <meta> tag
> feature. Well, actually, adding the CSP policies isn't going to be the
> hard part, fixing up all the pages will take a lot of work.
> 

Is that because those pages are not transmitted over HTTP or because our
existing CSP implementation doesn't really know how to handle the XUL?

> It'd be safer to automatically impose a policy but that would break so
> many add-ons that it would take great political will to make that kind
> of change even if we let add-ons opt-out of the imposition.
>

I'd love to avoid implicitly attaching policies to web pages. It sounds
like a good thing to go "default secure", but I nobody will be happy if
we break add-ons.

> -Dan Veditz

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