[whatwg] proposal for a location.domain property

[Adam Barth]

IMHO, we should be moving away from using the public suffix list in
the platform rather than adding more APIs that interact with it.

Adam


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Hallvord R. M. Steen
<hallvord at opera.com> wrote:
> Many browser engines use lists of top-level domains to be able to determine
> what a server's "base domain" is. For some use cases it would be interesting
> to have this information available to scripts. I list some use cases I can
> think of below:
>
> 1) Determining in a simple and fool-proof manner that a page is from a given
> domain. For example, if a script that might run on *.example.com,
> *.example.co.uk etc can do
> if(location.domain.indexOf('example.'==0) to check whether it runs on an
> *.example.* site (and not get a false positive match on example.exmple.com).
>
> 2) Checking what the shortest possible string for document.domain is.
>
> 3) Set cookies for all servers in a domain easily from JS without specific
> string operations on the hostname
>
> Thoughts?
> --
> Hallvord R. M. Steen
> Core tester, Opera Software