Create Workers from `data:` URLs

Misc

HTML specifies that `data:` URLs can be used to create workers with opaque origins. We should support this as a first step towards defining a sandboxing mechanism for Workers (and parity with other browsers).

Specification

Established standard

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (launch bug) in:

Chrome for desktop release 58
Chrome for Android release 58
Opera release 45
Opera for Android release 45

Consensus & Standardization

Firefox: Shipped
Edge: No public signals
Safari: No public signals
Web Developers: No signals

Owners

andypaicu@google.com
mkwst@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14