Re: Use Cases and Requirements for Saving Files Securely

2009-11-11 Thread Arve Bersvendsen
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:48:58 +0100, Doug Schepers schep...@w3.org wrote: Please send in use cases, requirements, concerns, and concrete suggestions about the general topic (regardless of your opinion about my suggestion). One concern: There are historical vulnerabilities, such as

Re: Rename “File API” to “FileReader API”?

2009-11-11 Thread Arve Bersvendsen
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:50 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: I think file writing (once the script has securely received a file handle) has different security considerations than directory manipulation and opening of arbitrary files. File writing should be designed with

Re: Rename “File API” to “FileReader API”?

2009-11-11 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Arve Bersvendsen wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:50 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: I think file writing (once the script has securely received a file handle) has different security considerations than directory manipulation and opening of

Re: Use Cases and Requirements for Saving Files Securely

2009-11-11 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:45 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:21:06 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Doug Schepers wrote: Please send in use cases, requirements, concerns, and

Re: STS and lockCA

2009-11-11 Thread Adam Barth
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Bil Corry b...@corry.biz wrote: Gervase Markham wrote on 10/01/2009 5:51 PM: I therefore propose a simple extension to the STS standard; a single token to be appended to the end of the header: lockCA One idea to consider, especially for lockCA, is to somehow

Re: STS and lockCA

2009-11-11 Thread Devdatta
One idea to consider, especially for lockCA, is to somehow denote that STS should expire at the same time as the cert, perhaps by omitting max-age or allowing max-age=cert, etc. This will prevent accidentally causing STS to last longer or shorter than the cert expiration, especially

Re: [FileAPI] File.name

2009-11-11 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:39:46 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: The name of the file as a UTF8-encoded string. A DOMString is not UTF-8-encoded. I think this should just say Returns the filename. It is not more complicated than

RE: Use Cases and Requirements for Saving Files Securely

2009-11-11 Thread paul.downey
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Doug Schepers wrote: Please send in use cases, requirements, concerns, and concrete suggestions about the general topic (regardless of your opinion about my suggestion). We presented a paper on behalf of TiddlyWiki, an example Single Page Application at the devices

comments from Osmosoft on the File API

2009-11-11 Thread paul.downey
At Osmosoft, we took some time to collectively read the File API Editor's Working Draft 28 October 2009: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/ Our interest in this specification stems from our contribution to the open source product TiddlyWiki -- an example of a Single Page Application

Re: comments from Osmosoft on the File API

2009-11-11 Thread Arthur Barstow
On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:30 AM, ext paul.dow...@bt.com wrote: During our review we have one overall disappointment: whilst the Use Cases describe saving local files programatically, the specification does not provide any write methods. We wondered if these were to be provided in a later version

Re: STS and lockCA

2009-11-11 Thread Gervase Markham
On 11/11/09 08:57, Adam Barth wrote: Why do we need a browser mechanism for that? It seems like the site can easily compute whatever max-age value it wishes to set. Not to mention the fact that you normally don't actually want the LockCA to expire at exactly the same time as the cert, because

[widgets] Draft Agenda for 12 November 2009 VC

2009-11-11 Thread Arthur Barstow
Below is the draft agenda for the November 12 Widgets Voice Conference (VC). Inputs and discussion before the VC on all of the agenda topics via public-webapps is encouraged (as it can result in a shortened meeting). Please address Open/Raised Issues and Open Actions before the meeting:

Re: Rename “File API” to “FileReader API”?

2009-11-11 Thread Frederick Hirsch
I would be concerned with leaving file writing to DAP, because a widely held view in DAP seems to be that security can be ignored while designing APIs and added back later with an external policy file mechanism. From the F2F my understanding is that DAP will consider security as an

Re: STS and lockCA

2009-11-11 Thread Bil Corry
Gervase Markham wrote on 11/11/2009 6:28 AM: On 11/11/09 08:57, Adam Barth wrote: Why do we need a browser mechanism for that? It seems like the site can easily compute whatever max-age value it wishes to set. Not to mention the fact that you normally don't actually want the LockCA to

[widgets] Conformance testing results

2009-11-11 Thread Marcos Caceres
Hi All, Daniel Silva and Samuel Santos have completed Phase 1 of compatibility testing. They've detailed their results as part of the conformance matrix [1]. We would like to publish the results as a working group note. Phase 2 will begin in about 3 weeks, in which we are hoping to start working

Re: Use Cases and Requirements for Saving Files Securely

2009-11-11 Thread Eric Uhrhane
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Doug Schepers wrote: Please send in use cases, requirements, concerns, and concrete suggestions about the general topic (regardless of your opinion

Re: Rename “File API” to “FileReader API”?

2009-11-11 Thread Eric Uhrhane
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Arve Bersvendsen wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:50 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: I think file writing (once the script has securely received a file handle) has

Re: Rename “File API” to “FileReader API”?

2009-11-11 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Eric Uhrhane wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Arve Bersvendsen wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:50 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: I think file writing (once the

Re: Use Cases and Requirements for Saving Files Securely

2009-11-11 Thread Eric Uhrhane
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Eric Uhrhane wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Doug Schepers wrote:

Re: Rename “File API” to “FileReader API”?

2009-11-11 Thread Eric Uhrhane
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Eric Uhrhane wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Maciej Stachowiak m...@apple.com wrote: On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Arve Bersvendsen wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:47:50 +0100,

Re: [fileapi] urn - URL

2009-11-11 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren wrote: I don't see a reason why we should call the member urn. URL is much more consistent with other parts of the Web platform and works just as well. I thought we agreed on this previously so I'm just mentioning it here since it seems to have changed again. URN seems to