On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > 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? >
The list "... changes a few times per month" [1]. What's the consequence of using an outdated list in the app? [1] https://publicsuffix.org/list/ > / Jonas > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
