[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 90618] Add folder access policy to allow local access to same folder and child folders

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90618





--- Comment #15 from Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org>  2012-07-13 11:15:08 PST ---
> I'm not using file URLs very often for myself. But there are people that do use file-based html utilities very often, and they work in FireFox and Safari. I cannot ask all of them to run a local http server on their own devices.

Either that, or you can introduce a new URI scheme that has a sane security model, like the chrome-extension URI scheme.

> The problem of Safari solution is it gives universal access to file URL's. Can you consider this as an enhancement of current Safari solution?

There doesn't seem to be a problem to solve in Safari given that these utilities already work there.  We're unlikely to adopt this policy in Chromium, so it's not going to solve your problem there either.

> Adding this policy doesn't force any products to use it. This just gives more options as other policies and settings do.

That's true, but it does make our local security checks even more complicated.  I'd much rather make them simpler than more complicated.

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