[whatwg] Fetch: cross-origin redirect to a data URL

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 2/25/13 3:00 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> Yes, that's to defend against a different sort of attack.  In some
> browsers, like Firefox, data URLs inherit the security context of
> their authors.

This is not the case for data: URLs that are the target of a redirect, 
for what it's worth.  At least in Firefox, last I checked.

The only argument I've seen for Chrome's behavior is in 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786275

-Boris