[whatwg] Location object identity and navigation behavior

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Bobby Holley wrote:
> 
> Aside from concerns about stack introspection, the main downside of this 
> approach is that it's a blacklist, rather than a whitelist (like our 
> other security code), so we'll have to be extra careful when 
> implementing anything new on Location. Please keep that in mind when 
> updating the spec. ;-)

Can you elaborate on what is a blacklist?

The way it ended up in the spec is that everything on Location is blocked 
if it's a cross-origin access, except for the 'href' setter and 'replace'.

This is an area that I've already screwed up the security model for twice, 
though, so I would have no trouble believing I screwed it up again...

   http://whatwg.org/html#security-3

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