TL;NR - You don't need to use "HTTP(..)" directive on reftests to bypass same-origin policy, and you should not do so.
----- Historically, we added "HTTP(..)", "HTTP(../..)", etc. for downloadable fonts in reftests to bypass the strict same-origin policy of file protocol, which bans accessing fonts outside the directory of a reftest. The strict same-origin policy has been disabled for reftests since Firefox 22 (bug 846890[1]), so it makes no sense to add "HTTP(..)" for that anymore. In addition, my experiment shows a great improvement on time consumption of reftest tasks on debug builds by simply removing "HTTP(..)" from reftest.list (data in bug 1258916 comment 79[2]), so adding "HTTP" for downloadable fonts is not only useless, but also harmful. I've landed a patch in bug 1258916[3] to remove "HTTP(..)" thing from reftests imported from CSSWG's test repo. Bug 1318526[4] is for removing that from existing reftests elsewhere. - Xidorn Links: 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=846890 2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258916#c79 3. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258916#c98 4. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318526 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
