[whatwg] Same-origin checking for media elements

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sun Nov 16 18:33:45 PST 2008


On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> Maybe it is possible to combine the two approaches 2) and 3) as
> proposed by Robert O'Callahan.
> The Access-Control-Allow-Origin: "*"  header would then allow access
> to more information than is available through the restricted API.
> (This was an approach suggested on #theora).

My intent is that when we have an API to restrict, we use Access-Control 
to restrict it (providing opt-in to the full API, implicitly a limited 
API, and a Referer-based, Origin-based, and/or A-C based opt-out of any 
access whatsoever).

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