Any page navigations have to include cordova.js, right?  What about
injecting the meta tag before deviceready?


On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Ian Clelland <iclell...@chromium.org>
wrote:

> I love the idea of using CSP for this, especially because it handles things
> that our whitelist intercept code can't, like <video> tags and WebSockets.
>
> The problem that I've found with it is that we can only enforce it for
> single-page apps. We can inject our own CSP headers into the application's
> start page very easily, but if the user can leave that page and load
> another, then the headers will no longer apply. The WebView interface won't
> let use add headers to subsequent pages, so it's up to the developer to
> include them in a <meta> tag instead. (and malicious attackers, of course,
> won't)
>
> For now, I would encourage devs to include that <meta> tag on *all* of the
> pages in their apps, but we can't do it automatically.
>
> If it turns out that we can, then I'd be on board with including that in
> the 4.0 branch. It's a much better way to do it. Then we'd only need the
> second whitelist for launching intents, I think.
>
> Ian
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Parashuram Narasimhan (MS OPEN TECH) <
> panar...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Had a quick question on the whitelists. I remember that there was talk of
> > using CSP to fix this issue. A CSP file may not be backward compatible,
> but
> > could potentially just give us one list instead of 2 whitelists. The CSP
> > file may be like the following
> >
> > Content-Security-Policy:
> >         script-src 'self', foo.com, bar.com
> >         img-src cdn.com
> >         intent-src mail, sms
> >
> > Note the new intent-src directive, that is basically used to launch
> > external programs. Do you think this could be something we can look at,
> for
> > 4.0 ? I am not sure if our whitelist xml file maps to a W3C spec, but CSP
> > seems more like a standard. This is breaking, and 4.0 may be the right
> time
> > to do it ?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: iclell...@google.com [mailto:iclell...@google.com] On Behalf Of
> Ian
> > Clelland
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 8:30 AM
> > To: dev@cordova.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: [Discuss] 3.6.0 Release
> >
> > I've created CB-7291 for the whitelist issue, and I've ported the code
> > from June to the new-style configuration architecture and committed it
> to a
> > named CB-7291 branch on cordova-android.
> >
> > If anyone has any thoughts/opinions on the syntax or the proposal itself,
> > or on what the defaults should be for new and upgrading applications,
> > please chime in on the issue.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Parashuram Narasimhan (MS OPEN TECH) <
> > panar...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I think we should also finalize on the platform switches so that we
> > > all agree on a pattern (even if it is different across platforms).
> > > This way, we can release 3.6.0 with a set of switches, and ensure that
> > > it is backward compatible.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: iclell...@google.com [mailto:iclell...@google.com] On Behalf Of
> > > Ian Clelland
> > > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 8:00 AM
> > > To: dev@cordova.apache.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Discuss] 3.6.0 Release
> > >
> > > I'll see about committing that today; I've had to reorganize it quite
> > > a bit after the Big Config Refactor.
> > >
> > > Joe, I'm pretty certain that your code is still in master, but
> > > definitely add those tests to make sure, and to make sure we don't
> > regress.
> > >
> > > Ian
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Marcel Kinard <cmarc...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I agree with Joe.
> > > >
> > > > On Aug 11, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Let's not release until the new whitelist is figured out.  That
> > > > > feature
> > > > is
> > > > > too important.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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