On 21 March 2014 08:38, Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 March 2014 08:31, Olle E. Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The javascript application may want to know why a connection fails >> - if it's icmp error, certificate mismatch, certificate expiry, dane error >> or something else. > > > I agree with everything you're saying here, but sadly it's out of our > hands (and not in scope for the XSF). > > The best we could do is write a detailed proposal of what we'd like a > Javascript API to provide us, and send it to the W3C. > > Actually, a short paragraph in the Security Considerations might make sense covering at least some of these issues, too - Olle, could you put some text together?
> It's possible some of this will be covered by the Javascript Crypto API > work going on, too, I'd fondly imagine. > > Dave. >
