Necko computes this information in order to set the User-Agent header in
the parent process. This header is set on all outgoing requests, and
therefore in the content process we can easily copy the value of this
header from the document channel object instead of the inefficient sync
IPC that currently happens in order to access the JavaScript
implementation living in the parent process.
This patch implements the W3C Web Authentication API from
https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/, currently the 28 September 2016
working draft.
It utilizes a tentative binding of the U2F NSS Soft Token to provide
authentication services while waiting on Bug 1245527 to support USB HID-based
U2F tokens. This binding is not in the specification yet, so it should be
considered an experiment to help the specification move fowrard.
There are also a handful of deviations from the specification's WebIDL, which
are annotated with comments in WebAuthentication.webidl.
There are no tests in this commit; they are in Part 4 of this commit series.
There is a small script online at https://webauthn.bin.coffee/ to exercise this
code, but it doesn't do any automated checks.
There are also a handful of TODOS:
1) The algorithm to relax the same-origin restriction is in Part 3.
2) The use of AlgorithmIdentifier and having a way to coerce an object to a
string is still missing.
3) Timeouts and deadlines aren't there, and are pending reworking how
the nsIU2FToken interface works.
UPDATED:
- Address qdot, keeler review comments (thanks!)
- Address more qdot, keeler review comments (thanks!)
MozReview-Commit-ID: JITapI38iOh
This patch removes support for mozapp iframes, leaving support for
mozbrowser iframes intact. Some of the code has been rewritten in order
to phrase things in terms of mozbrowser only, as opposed to mozbrowser
or app. In some places, code that was only useful with apps has been
completely removed, so that the APIs consumed can also be removed. In
some places where the notion of appId was bleeding out of this API, now
we use NO_APP_ID. Other notions of appId which were restricted to this
API have been removed.
This patch removes support for mozapp iframes, leaving support for
mozbrowser iframes intact. Some of the code has been rewritten in order
to phrase things in terms of mozbrowser only, as opposed to mozbrowser
or app. In some places, code that was only useful with apps has been
completely removed, so that the APIs consumed can also be removed. In
some places where the notion of appId was bleeding out of this API, now
we use NO_APP_ID. Other notions of appId which were restricted to this
API have been removed.
- WebVR 1.0 includes a new property added to Navigator,
activeVRDisplays
- Please apply the patchset in Bug 1250244 first.
MozReview-Commit-ID: 6wffkwvKllW
