Re: Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-04-18 Thread futsysg
Op zondag 29 maart 2020 08:24:06 UTC+2 schreef Emilio Cobos Álvarez: > Hey, a quick web-observable change that may deserve a bit more > visibility / an intent. > > I'd welcome some feedback, specially from the fingerprinting / privacy > angle (where I'm clearly not an expert). > > Summary: A pa

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-03-30 Thread Emilio Cobos Álvarez
On 3/30/20 8:02 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: Reading the post a few times, I'm still unclear on a few things, so would appreciate clarification. Here's what I understand from the post: On the user's machine, there is some entropy, i.e. the set of schemes for which an external protocol handler is regi

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-03-30 Thread Bobby Holley
Reading the post a few times, I'm still unclear on a few things, so would appreciate clarification. Here's what I understand from the post: On the user's machine, there is some entropy, i.e. the set of schemes for which an external protocol handler is registered. This entropy is currently retrieva

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-03-29 Thread Emilio Cobos Álvarez
On 3/29/20 9:11 AM, Emilio Cobos Álvarez wrote: Doing a bit of digging, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680300 contains some more interesting context... We apparently used to sync-throw when assigning location.href to an unknown protocol URI in the past, there we changed it to si

Re: Intent to implement and ship: Ignore navigation to unknown protocol

2020-03-29 Thread Emilio Cobos Álvarez
Doing a bit of digging, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680300 contains some more interesting context... We apparently used to sync-throw when assigning location.href to an unknown protocol URI in the past, there we changed it to silently fail, and now it is navigating to an erro