Treat file:// URLs as having unique origin

Feature: Treat file:// URLs as having unique origin

Similar to sandboxed iframes and data: URLs, treat file:// URLs as having unique origin.

Specification

Established standard

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

Chrome for desktop release 45
Chrome for Android release 45
Android WebView release 45

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

Firefox: No signal
Edge: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web Developers: No signals

Owners

Comments

There will be some visible side effects when opening documents via a file:// URL. For example - a file:// URL will no longer be able to XHR itself - two subframes navigated to the same file:// URL will no longer be able to script each other synchronously. The rationale behind this proposal is that using a filename as the security principal can be dangerous. There is no guarantee from an OS filesystem that a given filename always points to a unique object.

Search tags

file url, origin, security origin, security,

Last updated on 2020-11-09