[whatwg] window.onerror and cross-origin scripts

[Simon Pieters]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:02:47 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:

> On 9/20/11 5:40 PM, Simon Pieters wrote:
>> However, it is still possible to tell if the user is logged in or not if
>> a site serves a script for a particular URL when the user is logged in
>> and redirects to the home page or so when the user is not logged in.
>
> Can't you tell this from the load event for the <script> tag, without  
> involving the error event in any way?
>
> I'd love it if we could close this hole up, but the ship has long  
> sailed.  :(
>
>> There are other ways to
>> tell if the user is logged in, however it seems we should try to keep
>> them to a minimum.
>
> I'm not sure that onerror and onload are really different ways to tell  
> here.
>
> Unless the proposal is that in this case onload fire instead of onerror  
> for the script that ends up as an HTML document?

We don't support <script onload> yet. When we implement that, it's likely  
that we would try to find ways to not leak information in some way  
(possibly always firing onload for cross-origin scripts if that doesn't  
break Web sites).

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software