adding tanvi.

On Jul 1, 2014, at 7:20, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 7/1/14, 6:06 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> Hi Doug, Patrick, Boris,
> 
> ccing Jonas, since he's been thinking about this a lot recently.
> 
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIContentPolicy
>> suggests we have somewhat less granularity than Chromium / the
>> specification at the moment, but I'm not sure if that's up to date.
> 
> It's up to date, but Jonas is in the middle of working on a replacement for 
> that API.
> 
>> Do we have any plans in this area or do you have concerns about the
>> existing breakdown in the specification? Contexts will be observable
>> given CSP, Mixed Content, and will be exposed as string to service
>> workers.
> 
> The list of possible contexts looks OK to me, I think, except "popup", more 
> on which below.
> 
> I assume it will be the responsibility of whoever invokes a fetch to specify 
> a context?
> 
> What is the process of getting new contexts added as new features are added 
> to the platform?
> 
> So, "popup".
> 
> Is <a target="_blank" href="whatever"> a "navigation" or a "popup"? What 
> about <a target="something" href="whatever">?  Does it depend on whether an 
> existing navigation context with the name "something" exists?  What about 
> window.open("whatever", "something")?  What about <form action="whatever" 
> target="_blank">?  Is there a difference between navigations to _blank target 
> that will be show in new windows vs new tabs?
> 
> Basically, why is this a useful request context value?
> 
>> (Copied dev-platform as experiment. To inform everyone else this is
>> ongoing. If there's a more suitable Mozilla list when it comes to
>> standardizing Gecko, please let me know!)
> 
> This is the right list, imo.
> 
> As long as we're here, is the associated origin of a request related to the 
> request context or the response?  It would be good to make that clear.
> 
> Should the default mode be no CORS or CORS?  It might make some sense to have 
> it be CORS...  Similar for response tainting.
> 
> -Boris
> 
> 

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