I don't think moving the whitelist to a plugin would aid in its understanding. Right now the whitelist is used for two things:
1. Whether to allow network requests through (although this is broken for <audio>/<video> on iOS, and broken for them + websockets on Android 2. Whether to allow top frame navigations (e.g. clicking a link to http://* opens in system browser vs. webview) #1 doesn't work very well due to technical limitations. #2 is actually the more import one security-wise I think, and I don't think should be relegated to a plugin. I'm hoping medium-term that CSP can replace the use-case of #1. On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org> wrote: > What would be the security implication of removing it from core? No access > at all by default? Or unlimited access by default? > > I suspect that if the default policy with no plugin installed is the > latter, then we will be given the impression that it's not important at all > :) > > I had considered just turning the whitelist settings into a plugin -- > either leaving the default rules as they are, and writing a > "cordova-security" plugin that locks it down, or tighten everything by > default, and tell people to install "cordova-plugin-insecurity" if they > want to open it up :) > > I like the idea of making the entire whitelist architecture into a plugin, > though. If nothing else, it should be easier to reason about it, and easier > to fix or replace it in the future if we need to. > > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Actually it's already possible in any iOS version, we just have to > > make sure the plugin loads at startup. This is for UIWebView only, > > WKWebView has this issue: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7049 - you can't intercept > > any requests from it currently (not sure if anything changed in iOS 8 > > beta 3) > > > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > > Was discussing this w/ Shaz and Joe and, in theory, this is possible > from > > > iOS8 onward and possibly w/ some refactoring in the 4.x series of > > Android. > > > > > > Its also probably the single most problematic areas of misunderstanding > > as > > > it relates to security we have. Isolating it from core would give us a > > > better picture of how important it truly is. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > >
