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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jul 2016
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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
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Type: Feature
Team-Security-UX



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Add dev tools button to whitelist insecure origin as secure for testing

Project Member Reported by jww@chromium.org, Apr 6 2016

Issue description

As discussed on Twitter the other day (https://twitter.com/rem/status/715817857238581248), it would be helpful to have a developer tools option to whitelist an origin to be treated as secure, even though it's insecure.

This would effectively be a way to streamline the use of the command line flag --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="example.com". However, to make sure it maintains the security properties of that flag (namely, having a unique cookie jar), it would need to open a window in a new profile, just like --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure requires the simultaneous use of --user-data-dir.

I imagine the logical place to put this would be in the DevTools security panel.
 

Comment 1 by jww@chromium.org, Apr 6 2016

Summary: Add dev tools button to whitelist insecure origin as secure for testing (was: Add dev tools button to)
The cache separation (disk and local storage/idb) is the main motivation, not the cookie store. But yes, SG ;)
Two strawmen:

- Add a view below "Overview" titled "Testing" or "Settings".
- Add something to each origin view.

But how would "opening a window in a new profile" work? Can we enforce that the setting is temporary (only while DevTools is open)?
Status: WontFix (was: Available)
I don't see how we could productize such a feature in an intuitive manner given that it requires separate cookie jar. It would need UI (actions configs) outside DevTools as well.

Looks like --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure is a viable workaround for now.

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