[whatwg] Blacklist for regsiterProtocolHandler()

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Tue Apr 12 07:25:43 PDT 2011


On 2011-04-12 16:18, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
> We are investigating registerProtocolHandler and have been discussing
> the need for a blacklist of protocols to forbid.
>
> Our list currently includes:
> * http:
> * https:
> * ftp:
> * file:

Also, blob:

> Ancient Netscape scripting schemes. some were apparently aliases for
> javascript:
> * mocha:
> * livescript:
> * livewire:
> * tcl:

Correction: tcl wasn't Netscape, it was some other minor browser. Not 
sure which one.

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