On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ugg.

I know. What can I say? We are caught between idealism and practicality.

> 1) If the response has the right MIME type, then we can believe that
> the site has endorsed the extension.  As Adam says, "Site
> http://foo.bar.com wises to install an extension."
>
> 2) If the response has one of the following Content-Types:
>  * No Content-Type
>  * text/plain
>  * application/octet-stream
> AND the URL has the ".crx" extension AND the response starts with a
> magic string (such as "CHROME EXTENSION"), then believe that the
> response is an extension, but don't believe that the site has endorsed
> the extension.  As Adam says, "An unknown party wishes to install an
> extension."

Ok, thanks for the recommendation. Currently the magic string is
"Cr24". Not enough characters?

- a

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