[whatwg] Blacklist for regsiterProtocolHandler()

[Michael A. Puls II]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:33:43 -0400, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>>
>> We are investigating registerProtocolHandler and have been discussing
>> the need for a blacklist of protocols to forbid.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> We'd like to know if we've missed any important schemes that must be
>> blocked, and we think it might be useful if the spec listed most of
>> those, except for the vendor specific schemes, which should probably be
>> left up to each vendor to worry about.
>
> I haven't updated the spec yet, but it strikes me that maybe what we
> should do instead is have a whitelist of protocols we definitely want to
> allow (e.g. mailto:)

Sounds cool.

Besides mailto, these should be white-listed:

mms
nntp
rtsp

(There are lots more, but just wanted to mention those)

-- 
Michael