[webkit-dev] Proposed feature: Network Service Discovery

[Simon Fraser]

Perhaps before we spend any more time discussing the security implications of Network Service Discovery, we should decide whether it fits with the goals of the WebKit project:

https://www.webkit.org/projects/goals.html

It’s not at all clear to me that it does.

Simon

On Sep 6, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 6, 2013, at 9:44 AM, youenn fablet <youennf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ryosuke,
>> 
>> The two points you are mentioning make sense to me.
>>  
>> 
>> For starters, most of users wouldn't even know what a local network is; let alone what discovering media sources, etc... mean.
>> 
>> Most users may not be able to understand what means “discover local network DACP servers”.
>> But if a user is requested to grant/deny access to “Bob music library” service (the service being a DACP server), the situation seems getting better.
>> The spec is a work in progress and may be improved.
> 
> For the sake of argument let's say this "discovery" is allowed to occur.  How do you talk to "Bob music library" without the web page sending raw data to/from the DACP server?
> 
> --Oliver
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