Done.

As per http://crbug.com/21551, the URL has been changed to:

  chrome://net-internals/*

(Also changed "view-cache:", but announcing that in a separate thread.)

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Yeah, whatever problems we have with view-net-internal, we must have
>> > with
>> > view-cache.  Before making a change, we should understand why view-cache
>> > hasn't been a problem.  Or, has it?
>>
>> It's not as concrete as having a vulnerability or not.  Every time we
>> add a new scheme, we increase the attack surface and add complexity to
>> our security logic.  For example, chrome: has the noAccess bit set,
>> which mitigates XSS on chrome: pages.  I suspect we didn't remember to
>> set the noAccess bit on view-net-internal.  Of course we could enable
>> that particular mitigation in this particular case, but it's a parade
>> of paper cuts.
>>
>> Unless there's a tangible benefit to using a new scheme, it's probably
>> not worth the cost.
>>
>> Adam
>
>
> It's a good argument.  So long as we arrive at a solution that allows us to
> still have the bulk of the implementation (for these special pages) live in
> the net/ module, I'm happy with changing them over to chrome:// URLs.
> -Darin

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