On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Andrew Sutherland > <asutherl...@asutherland.org> wrote: >> Are there any plans to surface the contents of >> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIEffectiveTLDService >> from https://publicsuffix.org/ via a web-facing URI? > > There is https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25865 which is > about more formally defining eTLDs and perhaps even exposing an API. > However, it's unclear whether exposing an API is a good thing. eTLDs > are used for cookies, storage boundaries in certain browsers, and > document.domain. However, nobody is really pleased with that situation > and wishes everything used origins instead. > > So it's unclear whether to embrace eTLDs or retain hope that we can > slowly rid ourselves of features that depend on them.
Changing cookies seems unlikely to happen on any relevant timescale. Andrew, could you simply pull this data directly from publicsuffix.org and cache locally? / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
