Thanks for the explanations, Andrew. Most of this makes sense now. Also, I 
liked your comments.

We've noticed up to 30% performance slow down by disabling eval through CSP in 
angular and other popular frameworks. I'm concerned in not adding 'unsafe-eval' 
as the default. We should add it to the default policy and expect the 
developers to make the choice consciously to remove it.

Thanks,
Nikhil


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Grieve
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 10:47 AM
To: Andrew Grieve
Cc: dev
Subject: Re: CSP policy

Added comment with these points to the template.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> wrote:

> Great questions! Certainly was hoping to get more eyes on this!
>
> Not sure where a good spot to document this is, but maybe right in the 
> template is okay? That way users will also know the rationale :)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Nikhil Khandelwal 
> <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks for bringing this to notice. Forking the thread for better 
>> understanding of the default CSP policy. Can you provide more details 
>> of the rationale behind this CSP policy?
>>         <meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" 
>> content="default-src 'self' data: gap:
>> https://ssl.gstatic.com/accessibility/javascript/android/; style-src 
>> 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; media-src: *">
>>
>> Few specific questions:
>> - 'gap:' - could not find documentation on this - what does this mean?
>>
> Needed only on iOS, because it navigates iframes to that URL for it's
> exec() bridge.
>
>
>> - Why is https://ssl.gstatic.com/accessibility/javascript/android/ 
>> URL there for all platforms? Why is it even needed for Android?
>>
> Needed only on Android and is needed (crazily) to not break TalkBack 
> (screen reader). Note that CSP right now ignores paths, so that 
> actually has the effect of whitelisting all of ssl.gstatic.com
>
>
>> - 'unsafe-eval' is not present - does that mean evals do not work. I 
>> know a number of templating libraries depend on this.
>>
> Correct. My thinking here is that both FFOS and Chrome Apps both 
> decided that this is a good policy for packaged apps with access to 
> "dangerous"
> APIs, and so it would make a good default for us as well.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nikhil
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
>> Andrew Grieve
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 7:16 AM
>> To: dev
>> Subject: Re: [Vote] 3.8.0 Cordova App Hello World Release
>>
>> Note that this pulls in the addition of a content-security-policy 
>> <meta> tag.
>> Please ensure that this doesn't break your platform when voting.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Steven Gill <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Please review and vote on this 3.8.0 Cordova App Hello World Release.
>> >
>> > Release issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8645
>> >
>> > Repos ready to be released have been published to
>> > dist/dev:https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/cordova/CB-8645
>> >
>> > The package was published from its corresponding git tag:
>> > cordova-app-hello-world: 3.8.0 (0b55140d09)
>> >
>> > Upon a successful vote I will upload the archive to dist/ and 
>> > publish it to NPM.
>> >
>> > Voting guidelines:
>> > https://github.com/apache/cordova-coho/blob/master/docs/release-vot
>> > ing
>> > .md
>> >
>> > Voting will go on for a minimum of 48 hours.
>> >
>> > I vote +1:
>> > * Ran coho audit-license-headers over the relevant repos
>> > * Ran coho check-license to ensure all dependencies and 
>> > subdependencies have Apache-compatible licenses
>> > * Built a hello world app using the CLI
>> >
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