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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#c36">Comment # 36</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#c35">comment #35</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=156651#c34">comment #34</a>)
> > I don't understand, are you proposing that we permanently alter the
> > semantics of AllowFileAccessFromFileURLs for GTK only to allow access to
> > localStorage?
>
> Not at all. I'm proposing that we assume that apps already setting
> AllowFileAccessFromFileURLs are serving local file URIs and allow access to
> local storage for them for backwards compatibility. We won't document, nor
> encourage anybody to use that setting for that particular purpose.</span >
So you proposing that we permanently alter AllowFileAccessFromFileURLs to allow access to local storage, for all ports? (Brent?)
What, then, would be the value in the AllowUniversalAccessFromFileURLs setting?</pre>
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