navigator.registerProtocolHandler and web+ prefix tests

Please send feedback to Chris Weber <chris@lookout.net> | www.lookout.net | Tue Jan 17 00:47:56 PST 2012

This page includes conformance and security tests for the navigator.registerProtocolHandler function and the HTML5web+ scheme prefix. Many tests are loaded from tests.json while others are loaded from test.js file. The tests are hopefully self-documented, so if you're wondering they are you can just run them and read the output :-). In general PASS indicates an expected result that was good (conformant or secure) while FAIL indicates one that was bad (non-conformant, insecure, or perhaps just questionable). The results of testing several browsers are available online, as is an analysis I provided in a blog post. Please send me any new test cases, comments, suggestions, or corrections.

Requirements

Click to run all tests.

Enter a single "id" from tests.json and click to run that test only.

Run an ad hoc test that includes a scheme, uri, title, and an expected result - either 0 (pass) or -1 (fail)

Caveats and browser bugs

The following issues in Chrome 16 making testing a bit difficult:

  1. Currently Chrome cascades the infobars which means you will get UI spammed on some of the tests - that's why tests are running in a separate window.
  2. If you click 'No' on the infobar in Chrome, and later try to refresh the page and re-run the test, you will not be given the option to register the handler again. In other words, the choice is persistent.
  3. Unfortunately Chrome does not throw errors where I'd expect them, like when you try to register a scheme to another domain, which should always fail with a security error. Because of this, the results make it look like Chrome failed in places where it may have passed.

Test results

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References