[whatwg] postMessage's target origin argument can be a full URL in some implementations

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Tue Aug 10 21:28:06 PDT 2010


On 8/10/10 9:11 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> Specifically, this means the magic "/" string is no longer supported

Why?  That seemed like a useful feature, and not something likely to 
break anyone out there....

In particular, it allows use cases that are not possible right now (e.g. 
reasonable postMessage from an about:blank page to a page that has the 
same origin as the about:blank page).

-Boris



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