I've confirmed that this is a bug. We shouldn't be allowing ports in http permissions in the first place.
I've filed this bug: http://crbug.com/32160 You can "star" it to follow progress. - a On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Chris Killpack <[email protected]> wrote: > Chromium: 4.0.249.43 > OS: Ubuntu 8.04 x86-64 > > From my experiences over the last couple of days it appears that > Chrome has inconsistent enforcement of ports in the extensions > permissions set that leads to a lot of frustration. > > In my case I had included "http://localhost:8080/*"; in the permissions > set because my extension needs to talk to a local server. The problem > I encountered is that Chrome will let the xhr connect to the server, > but then 'reject' the response from the server. By reject, I mean: > > xhr.readyState = 4 > xhr.status = 0 > xhr.responseText = null. > > Once I removed the port number from my permissions entry, Chrome > allowed the response through. > > This inconsistency implied that my server was not setting HTML > response codes correctly, so I spent a while digging through that. To > make matters worse, the same xhr code was working absolutely fine with > other servers out on the net (that I had included in the permissions > set). > > I'm not familiar with the XHR security architecture so I cannot > comment if this is expected behavior or not. But at the least it seems > inconsistent. Can I ask that the relevant documentation, > http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/xhr.html and > http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/match_patterns.html please be > updated to discuss this behavior? > > Thanks! > > Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Chromium-extensions" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > > >
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