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Well maybe I want to grant the site access to a particular internal IP without the ability to send requests everywhere... at what point would Chrome just have i

Well maybe I want to grant the site access to a particular internal IP without the ability to send requests everywhere... at what point would Chrome just have its own separate firewall?

franga2000 5y ago
The modern browser is already an operating system by all definitions I know so yes, it might as well have a firewall. But that isn't very elegant, so I propose version 2.0: "This site has requested communication with a local device. Please select it from this list:" [the user is presented with a list of devices discovered by zeroconf/dns-sd/mdns/upnp matching the service descriptor given by the page] Turns out, this was an actual spec [0] pushed by Opera of all companies. Here's a quote from the spec: > window . navigator . getNetworkServices ( type , successCallback [, errorCallback ] ) > > Prompts the user to select discovered network services that have advertised support for the requested service type. > > The type argument contains one or more valid service type tokens that the web page would like to interact with. > > If the user accepts, the successCallback is invoked, with zero or more NetworkService objects as its argument. > > If the user declines, the errorCallback (if any) is invoked. [0] https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-discovery-api-20121004/ https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-discovery-api-20121004/