I don't think we want these feed previews to run with foo.com's
authority.  I'd rather they ran with no one's authority.

Adam


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> WebKit does not support nested schemes.  It would fail in so many places to
> recognize that the authority of such an URL is actually foo.com.
>
> (However, we could perhaps support this as we do view-source, where WebKit
> never actually sees the view-source URL.)
> -Darin
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I think Darin had some strong opinions about whether we should do
>> nested schemes like feed-view:http://foo.com/bar.
>>
>> From a security point of view, we'd ideally like to render feeds with
>> JavaScript and plug-ins disabled, as well as in a noAccess
>> SecurityOrigin.  This is easier if the feed preview lives in its own
>> scheme.  I'm happy to help out with the security bits once you have
>> the basics up and running.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Ben Goodger (Google) <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> - Some existing practice on the web is to use
>> >> "feed://hostname/etc.xml", which drops the protocol (and should be
>> >> interpreted as HTTP).  Ideally you should redirect these into
>> >> view-feed:http://hostname/etc.xml so our view-feed works with https,
>> >> ftp, etc. URLs.
>> >
>> > Firefox retains the URL of the feed in the address bar (including
>> > scheme), which is nice, though it falls back to an internal URL under
>> > the hood to do the render of the preview.
>> >
>> > -Ben
>> >
>> > >> >
>> >
>
>

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