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title="REOPENED - [GTK] Expose AllowUniversalAccessFromFileURLs preference now that calling localStorage.getItem() results in SecurityError: DOM Exception 18"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156651#c28">Comment # 28</a>
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title="REOPENED - [GTK] Expose AllowUniversalAccessFromFileURLs preference now that calling localStorage.getItem() results in SecurityError: DOM Exception 18"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156651">bug 156651</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mcatanzaro@igalia.com" title="Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@igalia.com>"> <span class="fn">Michael Catanzaro</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=156651#c26">comment #26</a>)
<span class="quote">> 1.- Patch WebKit in 2.12 branch only to allow access to local storage from
> file URLs when AllowFileAccessFromFileURLS is set.</span >
No please, let's not change the semantics of this setting just for a stable branch.
<span class="quote">> 2.- Roll out the patch that introduced the issue. It doesn't look like a so
> serious issue in the end, and it has always been that way.</span >
I dunno about that either; arbitrary access to localStorage seems pretty serious.</pre>
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