On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Drew Wilson wrote:
My recollection is that we prohibit worker access to cookies for
exactly this reason (WorkerGlobalScope does not expose a "cookies"
attribute).
Looks like you're right; section 5 of the Web Workers spec says:
The DOM APIs (Node objects, Document objects, etc) are not available
to workers in this version of this specification.
and there's no defined way to access cookies except through Document.
Crisis averted.
(If the spec does get modified to allow local-storage access from
worker threads, though, this same problem will arise, since they use
the same lock.)
—Jens
