Bug 27887 – Worker URL resolution uses wrong scope

• Status: NEW
• Component: WebCore JavaScript

[Andrew Wilson]

Section 4.8.2 of the Web Workers spec reads:

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When the Worker(scriptURL) constructor is invoked, the user agent must run the following steps:

Resolve the scriptURL argument relative to the first script's base URL, when the method is invoked.

If this fails, throw a SYNTAX_ERR exception.

If the origin of the resulting absolute URL is not the same as the origin of the script that invoked the constructor, then throw a security exception.
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"first script's base URL" == the base URL of the dynamic global object
"origin of the script that invoked the constructor" == "origin of the lexical global object"

Currently we are using the lexical global object for both. The fail case is somewhat subtle (you end up having to grab constructors cross-frame, while changing your origin via document.domain.