Bug 183292

Summary: Investigate usage of XMLHttpRequest's Permissions Policy usage
Product: WebKit Reporter: Ian Clelland <iclelland>
Component: DOMAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: Normal CC: achristensen, annevk, ap, beidson, cdumez, ggaren, youennf
Priority: P2    
Version: WebKit Nightly Build   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183300
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 183300    

Description Ian Clelland 2018-03-02 09:35:00 PST
XMLHttpRequest objects can have their behavior controlled by feature policy
(https://github.com/whatwg/xhr/pull/177, not merged yet)

If the policy in the active document disallows the 'sync-xhr' feature, then calling .send() on the XMLHttpRequest object should throw a NetworkError (and ideally log a message to the developer console)

Demo: https://xhr.featurepolicy.rocks/
GitHub issue: https://github.com/whatwg/xhr/issues/178
Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/xhr/xmlhttprequest-sync-default-feature-policy.sub.html

Feature policy itself has been partially implemented as part of https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167430, but I haven't found another bug for the rest of the implementation. Let me know if I should file that as well.
Comment 1 youenn fablet 2018-03-02 09:46:55 PST
Hi Ian,

I guess that if there are other bugs related to feature policy that are filed, maybe having an umbrella bug might be useful.

The current feature policy "implementation" is minimal in that it only checks for the iframe attribute, (no headers checking) and is specific to media capture.
Comment 2 Ian Clelland 2018-03-02 13:21:04 PST
Thanks, Youenn --- I filed https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183300; I'm not sure if bugzilla allows me to declare a dependency of this bug on that one.
Comment 3 Anne van Kesteren 2024-03-15 05:58:15 PDT
Letting a top-level site adjust the control flow of an embedded site is generally not a good idea. This has also been removed from XMLHttpRequest.
Comment 4 Anne van Kesteren 2024-03-15 06:08:36 PDT
Actually, there is something implemented. Maybe that needs to be removed.
Comment 5 Anne van Kesteren 2024-03-16 01:00:23 PDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 202098 ***