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title="REOPENED - WkWebview: calling localStorage.getItem() results in Uncaught Exception: SecurityError: DOM Exception 18: An attempt was made to break through the security policy of the user agent."
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156651#c17">Comment # 17</a>
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title="REOPENED - WkWebview: calling localStorage.getItem() results in Uncaught Exception: SecurityError: DOM Exception 18: An attempt was made to break through the security policy of the user agent."
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156651">bug 156651</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:dustin@falgout.us" title="Dustin Falgout <dustin@falgout.us>"> <span class="fn">Dustin Falgout</span></a>
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<pre>I don't see my commit message on the patch (not sure if that's normal-I used the webkit-patch script to upload it). Anyway, here is my commit message:
GTK: Expose WebKitAllowUniversalAccessFromFileURLs preference key in WebKitGTK+
As of r197858 JavaScript loaded in the context of a file scheme url cannot access local storage. That is a major breaking change as many applications that serve files locally rely on having access to local storage. The point of the that security fix is to avoid cases of downloaded HTML content (such as e-mail attachments or JS injected into local contexts) from having access to your local file system and arbitrary local storage. If you are serving local files in your applications, you can use the WebKitAllowUniversalAccessFromFileURLs preference key to tell Webkit that you are approve of these kinds of interactions.
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href="show_bug.cgi?id=156651">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156651</a></pre>
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