[whatwg] Proposal: location.parentOrigin

Tobie Langel tobie.langel at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 16:13:32 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Tobie Langel wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > > Can't you do window.isSameOrigin by just trying to access 
> > > window.location.href and seeing if you get an exception?
> > 
> > Unfortunately not, because of the previously mentioned WebKit bug which 
> > logs an error message but doesn't throw (so there's no way of knowing 
> > whether an exception was thrown or not).
> 
> We can trivially change that, if that's the only problem.

Fixing that bug would be a great step forward.

--tobie





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