On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 05:06:01PM +0100, Jocelyn Turcotte wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:40:35AM +0000, Saha, Deepjyoti wrote:
> > The QtWebkit API set in Qt 4.8 does not contain any intefraces which could 
> > allow a QtWebkit based browser to add/remove specific domains to be 
> > whitelisted for cross origin requests.  I understand that previosly these 
> > API's were exposed through the intefraces in "QWebSecurityOrigin" which 
> > invoked the  API's in WebCore's SecurityOrigin class. But currently the 
> > API's to add/remove a whitelist entry are exposed through WebCore's 
> > SecurityPolicy class and there are no interfaces in QtWebkit API to invoke 
> > the same.
> > 
> > I aslo noticed there was a bug raised and it was discussed in the following 
> > thread:
> > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTWEBKIT-24?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel
> > 
> > But it has not been implemented yet. It would be great if you could let me 
> > could know of any particluar reason this was not taken up ?
> > To be specific were there any concerns from the  security standpoint on 
> > exposing such interfaces ?
> 
> I think that just nobody had enough interest to fix it, yet :)
> 
> I personally think that this could be implemented as static functions of 
> QWebSecurityOrigin, similar to addLocalScheme and removeLocalScheme. Other 
> people might have better idea but if not now, this could be a good starting 
> point at least.
> 

Allan just pointed me that your bug report points to 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31875 where we already have a similar 
unfinished implementation.
I believe it got forgotten out of other tasks getting in the way, but it should 
be possible to start again from there.

Cheers,
Jocelyn
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