[whatwg] <iframe srcdoc> and Content-Security-Policy

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Adam Barth wrote:
> >>
> >> When creating a srcdoc document, in the same way that we copy the 
> >> parent document's origin onto the child document, we should:
> >>
> >> 1) /enforce/, on the srcdoc document, all CSP policies currently being
> >> enforced on the parent document.
> >> 2) /monitor/, on the srcdoc document, all CSP policies currently being
> >> monitored on the parent document.
> >
> > [...] why is srcdoc="" special here?
> 
> It's special because it's a way of specifying a resource other than 
> providing a URI for that resource.  If you like, we could consider this 
> an "inline" resource and block it unless the policy contains 
> 'unsafe-inline', but that seems less useful that just inheriting the CSP 
> policy the same way we inherit the parent document's origin and title.

Fair enough.

I think this belongs in the CSP spec, though.

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