Re: Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-04-18 Thread futsysg
Op zondag 29 maart 2020 08:24:06 UTC+2 schreef Emilio Cobos Álvarez: > Hey, a quick web-observable change that may deserve a bit more > visibility / an intent. > > I'd welcome some feedback, specially from the fingerprinting / privacy > angle (where I'm clearly not an expert). > > Summary: A pa

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-03-30 Thread Emilio Cobos Álvarez
On 3/30/20 8:02 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: Reading the post a few times, I'm still unclear on a few things, so would appreciate clarification. Here's what I understand from the post: On the user's machine, there is some entropy, i.e. the set of schemes for which an external protocol handler is regi

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-03-30 Thread Bobby Holley
Reading the post a few times, I'm still unclear on a few things, so would appreciate clarification. Here's what I understand from the post: On the user's machine, there is some entropy, i.e. the set of schemes for which an external protocol handler is registered. This entropy is currently retrieva

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-03-29 Thread Emilio Cobos Álvarez
On 3/29/20 9:11 AM, Emilio Cobos Álvarez wrote: Doing a bit of digging, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680300 contains some more interesting context... We apparently used to sync-throw when assigning location.href to an unknown protocol URI in the past, there we changed it to si

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-03-29 Thread Emilio Cobos Álvarez
Doing a bit of digging, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680300 contains some more interesting context... We apparently used to sync-throw when assigning location.href to an unknown protocol URI in the past, there we changed it to silently fail, and now it is navigating to an erro

Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-03-28 Thread Emilio Cobos Álvarez
Hey, a quick web-observable change that may deserve a bit more visibility / an intent. I'd welcome some feedback, specially from the fingerprinting / privacy angle (where I'm clearly not an expert). Summary: A page redirecting / navigating to an unknown protocol will be silently ignored (and