multipart/x-mixed-replace
resourcesX-Frame-Options
` headerCertain actions cause the browsing context to navigate to a new resource. A user agent may provide various ways for the user to explicitly cause a browsing context to navigate, in addition to those defined in this specification.
For example, following a hyperlink,
form submission, and the window.open()
and location.assign()
methods can all cause a browsing context to
navigate.
A resource has a URL, but that might not be the only information necessary
to identify it. For example, a form submission that uses HTTP POST would also have the HTTP method
and payload. Similarly, an iframe
srcdoc
document needs to know the data it is to use.
Much of the navigation process is concerned with determining how to create a new
Document
, which ultimately happens in the create and initialize a Document
object
algorithm. The parameters to this algorithm are tracked via a navigation params
struct, which has the following items:
Document
Document
Document
Document
Once a navigation params struct is created, this standard does not mutate any of its items. They are only passed onward to other algorithms.
After Document
creation, the session history gets updated. A
history handling behavior is used to track the desired type of session history update
throughout the navigation process. It is one of the following:
default
"entry update
"reload
"replace
"Navigation always involves source browsing context, which is the browsing context which was responsible for starting the navigation.
As explained in issue #1130 the use of a browsing context as source might not be the correct architecture.
To navigate a browsing context browsingContext to a resource
resource, with an optional boolean exceptionsEnabled (default false), an optional history handling
behavior historyHandling (default "default
"), and an optional string navigationType (default "other
"):
If resource is a URL, then set resource to a new request whose url is resource.
If resource is a request and
historyHandling is "reload
", then set
resource's reload-navigation
flag.
If the source browsing context is not allowed to navigate browsingContext, then:
If exceptionsEnabled is given and is true, then throw a
"SecurityError
" DOMException
.
Otherwise, the user agent may instead offer to open resource in a new top-level browsing context or in the top-level browsing context of the source browsing context, at the user's option, in which case the user agent must navigate that designated top-level browsing context to resource as if the user had requested it independently.
Doing so, however, can be dangerous, as it means that the user is overriding the author's explicit request to sandbox the content.
If there is a preexisting attempt to navigate browsingContext, and the source browsing context is the same as browsingContext, and that attempt is currently running the unload a document algorithm, then return without affecting the preexisting attempt to navigate browsingContext.
If the prompt to unload algorithm is being run for the active document of browsingContext, then return without affecting the prompt to unload algorithm.
Let activeDocumentNavigationOrigin be the origin of the active document of browsingContext.
Let incumbentNavigationOrigin be the origin of the incumbent settings object, or if no script was involved, the origin of the node document of the element that initiated the navigation.
Cancel any preexisting but not yet mature
attempt to navigate browsingContext, including canceling any instances of the fetch algorithm started by those attempts. If one of those attempts
has already created and initialized a new
Document
object, abort that
Document
also. (Navigation attempts that have matured already have session history entries, and are
therefore handled during the update the session history with the new page algorithm,
later.)
Prompt to unload the active document of browsingContext. If the user refused to allow the document to be unloaded, then return.
If this instance of the navigation algorithm gets canceled while this step is running, the prompt to unload algorithm must nonetheless be run to completion.
Abort the active document of browsingContext.
If browsingContext is a child browsing context, then put it in the
delaying load
events mode.
The user agent must take this child browsing context out of the delaying
load
events mode when this navigation algorithm later matures, or when it terminates (whether due to having
run all the steps, or being canceled, or being aborted), whichever happens first.
Let sandboxFlags be the result of determining the creation sandboxing flags given browsingContext and browsingContext's container.
Return to whatever algorithm invoked the navigation steps and continue running these steps in parallel.
This is the step that attempts to obtain resource, if necessary. Jump to the first appropriate substep:
Assert: browsingContext is not a top-level browsing context.
Let finalSandboxFlags be the union of browsingContext's sandboxing flags and resource's forced sandboxing flag set.
Let responseOrigin be the result of determining the origin given browsingContext, resource's url, finalSandboxFlags, incumbentNavigationOrigin, and activeDocumentNavigationOrigin.
Let coop be a new cross-origin opener policy.
Let coopEnforcementResult be a new cross-origin opener policy enforcement result whose needs a browsing context group switch is false, would need a browsing context group switch due to report-only is false, url is resource's url, origin is responseOrigin, cross-origin opener policy is coop, and current context is navigation source is false.
Let navigationParams be a new navigation params whose request is null, response is resource, origin is responseOrigin, final sandboxing flag set is finalSandboxFlags, cross-origin opener policy is coop, COOP enforcement result is coopEnforcementResult, reserved environment is null, browsing context is browsingContext, and history handling is historyHandling.
Run process a navigate response with navigationType, the source browsing context, and navigationParams.
javascript
"Queue a global task on the DOM manipulation task source given browsingContext's active window to run these steps:
Let response be the result of executing
a javascript:
URL request given resource, the source
browsing context, and browsingContext.
Let finalSandboxFlags be the union of browsingContext's sandboxing flags and response's forced sandboxing flag set.
Let coopEnforcementResult be a new cross-origin opener policy enforcement result whose needs a browsing context group switch is false, would need a browsing context group switch due to report-only is false, url is resource's url, origin is activeDocumentNavigationOrigin, cross-origin opener policy is browsingContext's active document's cross-origin opener policy, and current context is navigation source is false.
Let navigationParams be a new navigation params whose request is resource, response is response, origin is activeDocumentNavigationOrigin, final sandboxing flag set is finalSandboxFlags, cross-origin opener policy is browsingContext's active document's cross-origin opener policy, COOP enforcement result is coopEnforcementResult, reserved environment is null, browsing context is browsingContext, and history handling is historyHandling.
Run process a navigate response with navigationType, the source browsing context, and navigationParams.
So for example a javascript:
URL in an href
attribute of an a
element would only be
evaluated when the link was followed, while such a
URL in the src
attribute of an iframe
element would be evaluated in the context of the iframe
's nested browsing
context when the iframe
is being set up. Once evaluated, its return value
(if it was a string) would replace that browsing context's active
document, thus also changing the corresponding Window
object.
Run process a navigate fetch given resource, the source browsing context, browsingContext, navigationType, sandboxFlags, incumbentNavigationOrigin, activeDocumentNavigationOrigin, and historyHandling.
javascript
" nor a fetch
schemeRun process a navigate URL scheme given resource's url and browsingContext.
To process a navigate fetch, given a request request, two browsing contexts sourceBrowsingContext and browsingContext, a string navigationType, a sandboxing flag set sandboxFlags, two origins incumbentNavigationOrigin and activeDocumentNavigationOrigin, and a history handling behavior historyHandling:
Let response be null.
Set request's client to
sourceBrowsingContext's active document's relevant settings
object, destination to "document
", mode to "navigate
", credentials
mode to "include
", use-URL-credentials flag, redirect mode to "manual
",
and replaces client id to
browsingContext's active document's relevant settings
object's id.
If browsingContext's container is non-null:
If the browsingContext's container has a browsing context scope origin, then set request's origin to that browsing context scope origin.
Set request's destination to browsingContext's container's local name.
Let reservedEnvironment be null.
Let responseOrigin be null.
Let currentContextIsSource be the result of whether browsingContext's active document is same origin with source's active document.
Let coopEnforcementResult be a new cross-origin opener policy enforcement result whose needs a browsing context group switch is false, would need a browsing context group switch due to report-only is false,url is browsingContext's active document's url, origin is browsingContext's active document's origin, cross-origin opener policy is browsingContext's active document's cross-origin opener policy, and current context is navigation source is currentContextIsSource.
Let finalSandboxFlags be an empty sandboxing flag set.
Let locationURL be null.
Let currentURL be request's current URL.
While true:
If locationURL is non-null, then set currentURL to locationURL.
If reservedEnvironment is not null and currentURL's origin is not the same as reservedEnvironment's creation URL's origin, then:
Run the environment discarding steps for reservedEnvironment.
Set reservedEnvironment to null.
If reservedEnvironment is null, then:
Let topLevelCreationURL be currentURL.
Let topLevelOrigin be null.
If browsingContext is not a top-level browsing context, then:
Let parentEnvironment be browsingContext's container's relevant settings object.
Set topLevelCreationURL to parentEnvironment's top-level creation URL and topLevelOrigin to parentEnvironment's top-level origin.
Set reservedEnvironment to a new environment whose id is a unique opaque string, target browsing context is browsingContext, creation URL is currentURL, top-level creation URL is topLevelCreationURL, and top-level origin is topLevelOrigin.
The created environment's active service worker is set in the Handle Fetch algorithm during the fetch if the request URL matches a service worker registration. [SW]
Set request's reserved client to reservedEnvironment.
If the result of Should navigation request of type be blocked by Content Security
Policy? given request and navigationType is "Blocked
", then set response to a network error and
break. [CSP]
Otherwise:
If response is null, fetch request.
Otherwise, perform HTTP-redirect fetch using request and response.
Wait for the task on the networking task source to process response and set response to the result.
Set finalSandboxFlags to the union of browsingContext's sandboxing flags and response's forced sandboxing flag set.
Set responseOrigin to the result of determining the origin given browsingContext, request's url, finalSandboxFlags, incumbentNavigationOrigin, and activeDocumentNavigationOrigin.
If browsingContext is a top-level browsing context, then:
Set responseCOOP to the result of obtaining a cross-origin opener policy given response and reservedEnvironment.
If sandboxFlags is not empty and responseCOOP's value is not "unsafe-none
", then set response to an
appropriate network error and break.
This results in a network error as one cannot simultaneously provide a clean slate to a response using cross-origin opener policy and sandbox the result of navigating to that response.
Set coopEnforcementResult to the result of enforcing the response's cross-origin opener policy given browsingContext, request's url, responseOrigin, responseCOOP, coopEnforcementResult and request's referrer.
If response is not a network error, browsingContext is a child browsing context, and the result of performing a cross-origin resource policy check with browsingContext's container document's origin, browsingContext's container document's relevant settings object, request's destination, response, and true is blocked, then set response to a network error and break.
Here we're running the cross-origin resource policy check against the parent browsing context rather than sourceBrowsingContext. This is because we care about the same-originness of the embedded content against the parent context, not the navigation source.
Set locationURL to response's location URL.
If locationURL is not a URL whose scheme is an HTTP(S) scheme, then break.
Navigation handles redirects manually as navigation is the only place in
the web platform that cares for redirects to mailto:
URLs and such.
If locationURL is failure, then set response to a network error.
Otherwise, if locationURL is a URL whose scheme is "blob
", "file
", "filesystem
", or "javascript
", then set response to a network error.
Otherwise, if locationURL is a URL whose scheme is a fetch scheme, then run process a navigate fetch with a new request whose url is locationURL, sourceBrowsingContext, browsingContext, navigationType, sandboxFlags, incumbentNavigationOrigin, activeDocumentNavigationOrigin, and historyHandling, and return.
Otherwise, if locationURL is a URL, run the process a navigate URL scheme given locationURL and browsingContext, and return.
Let navigationParams be a new navigation params whose request is request, response is response, origin is responseOrigin, final sandboxing flag set is finalSandboxFlags, cross-origin opener policy is responseCOOP, COOP enforcement result is coopEnforcementResult, reserved environment is reservedEnvironment, browsing context is browsingContext, and history handling is historyHandling.
Run process a navigate response with navigationType, the source browsing context, and navigationParams.
To process a navigate response, given a string navigationType, a browsing context source, and a navigation params navigationParams:
Let response be navigationParams's response.
Let browsingContext be navigationParams's browsing context.
Let failure be false.
If response is a network error, then set failure to true.
Otherwise, if the result of Should navigation response to navigation request of type in
target be blocked by Content Security Policy? given navigationParams's request, response,
navigationType, and browsingContext is "Blocked
",
then set failure to true. [CSP]
Otherwise, if navigationParams's reserved environment is non-null and the result of checking a navigation response's adherence to its embedder policy given response, browsingContext, and navigationParams's reserved environment is false, then set failure to true.
Otherwise, if the result of checking a navigation response's adherence to
`X-Frame-Options
` given response, browsingContext,
and navigationParams's origin is
false, then set failure to true.
If failure is true, then:
Display the inline content with an appropriate error shown to the user given browsingContext.
Run the environment discarding steps for navigationParams's reserved environment.
Return.
This is where the network errors defined and propagated by Fetch, such as DNS or TLS errors, end up being displayed to users. [FETCH]
If response's status is 204 or 205, then return.
If response has a `Content-Disposition
` header specifying the attachment
disposition type, then:
If the result of running the allowed to download given source and browsingContext is true, then handle response as a download.
Return.
Let type be the computed type of response.
If the user agent has been configured to process resources of the given type using some mechanism other than rendering the content in a browsing context, then skip this step. Otherwise, if the type is one of the following types, jump to the appropriate entry in the following list, and process response as described there:
text/css
"text/plain
"text/vtt
"multipart/x-mixed-replace
"An explicitly supported XML MIME type is an XML MIME type for which
the user agent is configured to use an external application to render the content (either a
plugin rendering directly in browsingContext, or a separate
application), or one for which the user agent has dedicated processing rules (e.g., a web
browser with a built-in Atom feed viewer would be said to explicitly support the
application/atom+xml
MIME type), or one for which the user agent has a dedicated
handler.
An explicitly supported JSON MIME type is a JSON MIME type for which the user agent is configured to use an external application to render the content (either a plugin rendering directly in browsingContext, or a separate application), or one for which the user agent has dedicated processing rules, or one for which the user agent has a dedicated handler.
Otherwise, the document's type is such that the resource will not affect browsingContext, e.g., because the resource is to be handed to an external application or because it is an unknown type that will be processed as a download. Process the resource appropriately.
To process a navigate URL scheme, given a URL url and browsing context browsingContext, run these steps:
If url is to be handled using a mechanism that does not affect browsingContext, e.g., because url's scheme is handled externally, then proceed with that mechanism instead.
Otherwise, url is to be handled by displaying some sort of inline content, e.g., an error message because the specified scheme is not one of the supported protocols, or an inline prompt to allow the user to select a registered handler for the given scheme. Display the inline content given browsingContext.
In the case of a registered handler being used, navigate will be invoked with a new URL.
When a resource is handled by passing its URL or
data to an external software package separate from the user agent (e.g. handing a mailto:
URL to a mail client, or a Word document to a word
processor), user agents should attempt to mitigate the risk that this is an attempt to exploit the
target software, e.g. by prompting the user to confirm that the source browsing
context's active document's origin is to be allowed to invoke the specified software.
In particular, if the navigate algorithm was invoked when source browsing
context's active window does not have transient activation, the
user agent should not invoke the external software package without prior user confirmation.
For example, there could be a vulnerability in the target software's URL handler which a hostile page would attempt to exploit by tricking a user into clicking a link.
To execute a javascript:
URL request,
given a request request and two browsing contexts source and
browsingContext, run these steps:
If both of the following are true:
source's active document's origin is same origin with browsingContext's active document's origin.
As explained in issue #2591 this step does not work and presents a security issue.
The result of Should navigation request of type be blocked by Content Security
Policy? given request and "other
" is "Allowed
". [CSP]
then:
Let urlString be the result of running the URL serializer on request's url.
Let encodedScriptSource be the result of removing the leading "javascript:
" from urlString.
Let scriptSource be the UTF-8 decoding of the percent-decoding of encodedScriptSource.
Append browsingContext's active document's URL to request's URL list.
Let settings be browsingContext's active document's relevant settings object.
Let baseURL be settings's API base URL.
Let script be the result of creating a classic script given scriptSource, settings, baseURL, and the default classic script fetch options.
Let evaluationStatus be the result of running the classic script script.
Let result be undefined if evaluationStatus is an abrupt completion or evaluationStatus.[[Value]] is empty, or evaluationStatus.[[Value]] otherwise.
If Type(result) is String, then set
response to a response whose header list consists of
`Content-Type
`/`text/html
` and `Referrer-Policy
`/settings's referrer
policy, and whose body is
result.
The exact conversion between the string result and the bytes that comprise a response body is not yet specified, pending further investigation into user agent behavior. See issue #1129.
Return response.
In addition to the specific issues linked above, javascript:
URLs have a dedicated label
on the issue tracker documenting various problems with their specification.
Some of the sections below, to which the above algorithm defers in certain cases, use the
following steps to create and initialize a Document
object,
given a type type, content type contentType, and
navigation params navigationParams:
Let browsingContext be the result of the obtaining a browsing context to use for a navigation response given navigationParams's browsing context, navigationParams's final sandboxing flag set, navigationParams's cross-origin opener policy, and navigationParams's COOP enforcement result.
Let permissionsPolicy be the result of creating a permissions policy from a response given browsingContext, navigationParams's origin, and navigationParams's response. [PERMISSIONSPOLICY]
The creating a permissions policy from a response algorithm makes use of the
passed origin. If document.domain
has
been used for browsingContext's container document, then its origin cannot be same origin-domain with
the passed origin, because these steps run before the document is created, so it
cannot itself yet have used document.domain
. Note
that this means that Permissions Policy checks are less permissive compared to doing a
same origin check instead.
See below for some examples of this in action.
If navigationParams's request is non-null, then set creationURL to navigationParams's request's current URL.
If browsingContext's only entry in its session history is the
initial about:blank
Document
that was added when that browsing
context was created, and
navigationParams's history handling is
"replace
", and that Document
's origin is same origin-domain with
navigationParams's origin, then do
nothing.
Otherwise:
Let oacHeader be the result of getting a structured field value
given `Origin-Agent-Cluster
` and "item
" from response's header list.
Let requestsOAC be true if oacHeader is not null and oacHeader[0] is the boolean true; otherwise false.
If reservedEnvironment is a non-secure context, then set requestsOAC to false.
Let agent be the result of obtaining a similar-origin window agent given navigationParams's origin, browsingContext's group, and requestsOAC.
Let realm execution context be the result of creating a new JavaScript realm given agent and the following customizations:
For the global object, create a new Window
object.
For the global this binding, use browsingContext's
WindowProxy
object.
Let topLevelCreationURL be creationURL.
Let topLevelOrigin be navigationParams's origin.
If browsingContext is not a top-level browsing context, then:
Let parentEnvironment be browsingContext's container's relevant settings object.
Set topLevelCreationURL to parentEnvironment's top-level creation URL.
Set topLevelOrigin to parentEnvironment's top-level origin.
Set up a window environment settings object with creationURL, realm execution context, navigationParams's reserved environment, topLevelCreationURL, and topLevelOrigin.
Let document be a new Document
, whose type is type, content type is contentType, origin is navigationParams's origin, permissions policy is
permissionsPolicy, active sandboxing flag set is
navigationParams's final sandboxing flag
set, and cross-origin opener policy is
navigationParams's cross-origin opener
policy.
Set document's URL to creationURL.
Set document's referrer
policy to the result of parsing the
`Referrer-Policy
` header of navigationParams's response. [REFERRERPOLICY]
If navigationParam's reserved environment is non-null, then set
document's embedder policy to
the result of obtaining an embedder policy given
navigationParams's response and
navigationParam's reserved
environment. Otherwise, set it to "unsafe-none
".
Initialize a Document
's CSP list given
document, navigationParams's response, and navigationParams's request. [CSP]
If navigationParams's request is non-null, then:
Set document's referrer to the empty string.
If referrer is a URL record, then set document's referrer to the serialization of referrer.
Per Fetch, referrer will be either a URL
record or "no-referrer
" at this point.
If navigationParams's response
has a `Refresh
` header, then:
Let value be the isomorphic decoding of the value of the header.
Run the shared declarative refresh steps with document and value.
We do not currently have a spec for how to handle multiple `Refresh
` headers. This is tracked as issue #2900.
Return document.
In this example, the child document is not allowed to use PaymentRequest
,
despite being same origin-domain at the time the child document tries to use
it. At the time the child document is initialized, only the parent document has set document.domain
, and the child document has not.
<!-- https://foo.example.com/a.html -->
<!doctype html>
<script>
document.domain = 'example.com';
</script>
<iframe src=b.html></iframe>
<!-- https://bar.example.com/b.html -->
<!doctype html>
<script>
document.domain = 'example.com'; // This happens after the document is initialized
new PaymentRequest(…); // Not allowed to use
</script>
In this example, the child document is allowed to use
PaymentRequest
, despite not being same origin-domain at the time
the child document tries to use it. At the time the child document is initialized, none of
the documents have set document.domain
yet so
same origin-domain falls back to a normal same origin check.
<!-- https://example.com/a.html -->
<!doctype html>
<iframe src=b.html></iframe>
<!-- The child document is now initialized, before the script below is run. -->
<script>
document.domain = 'example.com';
</script>
<!-- https://example.com/b.html -->
<!doctype html>
<script>
new PaymentRequest(…); // Allowed to use
</script>
Some of the sections below, to which the above algorithm defers in certain cases, require the
user agent to update the session history with the new page, given some navigation
params navigationParams and a Document
newDocument. When
a user agent is required to do this, it must queue a global task on the
networking task source, given the relevant global object of the
Document
object of the current entry (not the new one), to run the
following steps:
Unload the document of the current entry.
If this instance of the navigation algorithm is canceled while this step is running the unload a document algorithm, then the unload a document algorithm must be allowed to run to completion, but this instance of the navigation algorithm must not run beyond this step. (In particular, for instance, the cancelation of this algorithm does not abort any event dispatch or script execution occurring as part of unloading the document or its descendants.)
entry update
" or "reload
"Replace the document of the current entry, and of any other entries that reference the same document as that entry, with newDocument.
Traverse the history to the current entry with historyHandling set to navigationParams's history handling.
Let newEntry be a new session history entry whose URL is newDocument's URL and document is newDocument.
Some browsers copy over the serialized state of current entry, but this is inconsistent. See issue #6213 for more discussion on this.
Insert newEntry after the current entry in navigationParams's browsing context's session history.
Traverse the history to newEntry with historyHandling set to "replace
".
replace
"Let newEntry be a new session history entry whose URL is newDocument's URL and document is newDocument.
Insert newEntry after the current entry in navigationParams's browsing context's session history.
Traverse the history to newEntry with
historyHandling set to "replace
".
Assert: navigationParams's history
handling is "default
".
Remove all the entries in the session history after the current entry. If the current entry is the last entry in the session history, then no entries are removed.
This doesn't necessarily have to affect the user agent's user interface.
Append a new session history entry to the session history, whose URL is newDocument's URL and document is newDocument.
Traverse the history to the new entry.
The navigation algorithm has now matured.
Try to scroll to the fragment for newDocument.
To try to scroll to the fragment for a Document
document,
perform the following steps in parallel:
Wait for an implementation-defined amount of time. (This is intended to allow the user agent to optimize the user experience in the face of performance concerns.)
Queue a global task on the networking task source given document's relevant global object to run these steps:
If document has no parser, or its parser has stopped parsing, or the user agent has reason to believe the user is no longer interested in scrolling to the fragment, then abort these steps.
Scroll to the fragment given in document's URL. If this does not find an indicated part of the document, then try to scroll to the fragment for document.
When an HTML document is to be loaded, given navigation params navigationParams, the user agent must queue a task on the networking task source to:
Let document be the result of creating and initializing a Document
object given "html
", "text/html
", and
navigationParams.
Create an HTML parser and associate it with the document. Each task that the networking task source places on the task queue while fetching runs must then fill the parser's input byte stream with the fetched bytes and cause the HTML parser to perform the appropriate processing of the input stream.
The input byte stream converts bytes into characters for use in the tokenizer. This process relies, in part, on character encoding information found in the real Content-Type metadata of the resource; the computed type is not used for this purpose.
When no more bytes are available, the user agent must queue a global task on the
networking task source given the newly-created Document
's relevant
global object for the parser to process the implied EOF character, which eventually causes
a load
event to be fired.
After creating the Document
object, but before any script execution, certainly
before the parser stops, the user agent must update the
session history with the new page given navigationParams and the newly-created
Document
.
When faced with displaying an XML file inline, provided navigation params
navigationParams and a string type, user agents must follow the requirements
defined in XML and Namespaces in XML, XML Media Types,
DOM, and other relevant specifications to create and initialize a Document
object
given "xml
", type, and navigationParams. They must
also create a corresponding XML parser. [XML] [XMLNS] [RFC7303] [DOM]
At the time of writing, the XML specification community had not actually yet specified how XML and the DOM interact.
The actual HTTP headers and other metadata, not the headers as mutated or implied by the algorithms given in this specification, are the ones that must be used when determining the character encoding according to the rules given in the above specifications. Once the character encoding is established, the document's character encoding must be set to that character encoding.
Then, with the newly created Document
, the user agent must update the
session history with the new page given navigationParams and the newly-created
Document
. User agents may do this before the complete document has been parsed (thus
achieving incremental rendering), and must do this before any scripts are to be
executed.
Error messages from the parse process (e.g., XML namespace well-formedness errors) may be
reported inline by mutating the Document
.
When a plain text document is to be loaded, provided navigation params navigationParams and a string type, the user agent must queue a task on the networking task source to:
Let document be the result of creating and initializing a Document
object given "html
", type, and
navigationParams.
Create an HTML parser and associate it with the document. Act as if the tokenizer had emitted a start tag token with the tag name "pre" followed by a single U+000A LINE FEED (LF) character, and switch the HTML parser's tokenizer to the PLAINTEXT state. Each task that the networking task source places on the task queue while fetching runs must then fill the parser's input byte stream with the fetched bytes and cause the HTML parser to perform the appropriate processing of the input stream.
The rules for how to convert the bytes of the plain text document into actual characters, and the rules for actually rendering the text to the user, are defined by the specifications for the computed MIME type of the resource (i.e., type).
The document's character encoding must be set to the character encoding used to decode the document.
When no more bytes are available, the user agent must queue a global task on the
networking task source given the newly-created Document
's relevant
global object for the parser to process the implied EOF character, which eventually causes
a load
event to be fired.
After creating the Document
object, but potentially before the page has finished
parsing, the user agent must update the session history with the new page given
navigationParams and the newly-created Document
.
User agents may add content to the head
element of the Document
,
e.g., linking to a style sheet, providing script, or giving the document a title
.
In particular, if the user agent supports the Format=Flowed
feature of RFC 3676 then the user agent would need to apply extra styling to cause the text to
wrap correctly and to handle the quoting feature. This could be performed using, e.g., a CSS
extension.
multipart/x-mixed-replace
resourcesWhen a resource with the type multipart/x-mixed-replace
is to be loaded in a
browsing context, the user agent must parse the resource using the rules for
multipart types. [RFC2046]
This algorithm is passed navigation params, but it's unclear how exactly to use them.
For each body part obtained from the resource, the user agent must run process a navigate
response using the new body part and the same browsing context, with history handling set to "replace
" if a previous body part from the same resource resulted in a
creating and initializing a Document
object, and otherwise using the same setup as the navigate attempt that caused
this section to be invoked in the first place.
For the purposes of algorithms processing these body parts as if they were complete stand-alone resources, the user agent must act as if there were no more bytes for those resources whenever the boundary following the body part is reached.
Thus, load
events (and for that matter unload
events) do fire for each body part loaded.
When an image, video, or audio resource is to be loaded, provided navigation params navigationParams and a string type, the user agent should:
Let document be the result of creating and initializing a Document
object given "html
", type, and
navigationParams.
Append an html
element to document.
Append an element host element for the media, as described below, to the
body
element.
Set the appropriate attribute of the element host element, as described below, to the address of the image, video, or audio resource.
The element host element to create for the media is the element given in the table below in the second cell of the row whose first cell describes the media. The appropriate attribute to set is the one given by the third cell in that same row.
Type of media | Element for the media | Appropriate attribute |
---|---|---|
Image | img
| src
|
Video | video
| src
|
Audio | audio
| src
|
Then, the user agent must act as if it had stopped parsing.
After creating the Document
object, but potentially before the page has finished
fully loading, the user agent must update the session history with the new page given
navigationParams and the newly-created Document
.
User agents may add content to the head
element of the Document
, or
attributes to the element host element, e.g., to link to a style sheet, to provide a
script, to give the document a title
, or to make the media autoplay.
When a resource that requires an external resource to be rendered is to be loaded, provided navigation params navigationParams and a string type, the user agent should:
Let document be the result of creating and initializing a Document
object given "html
", type, and
navigationParmas.
Mark document as being a plugin document
Append an html
element to document.
Set the src
attribute of the embed
element to the address of the resource.
The term plugin document is used by
Content Security Policy as part of the mechanism that ensures iframe
s
can't be used to evade plugin-types
directives. [CSP]
Then, the user agent must act as if it had stopped parsing.
After creating the Document
object, but potentially before the page has finished
fully loading, the user agent must update the session history with the new page given
navigationParams and the newly-created Document
.
User agents may add content to the head
element of the Document
, or
attributes to the embed
element, e.g. to link to a style sheet or to give the
document a title
.
When the user agent is to display a user agent page inline, provided a browsing context browsingContext, the user agent should:
Let navigationParams be a new navigation params whose request is null, response is null, origin is a new opaque origin, final sandboxing flag set is an empty set, cross-origin opener policy is a new cross-origin opener policy, COOP enforcement result is a new cross-origin opener policy enforcement result, reserved environment is null, and browsing context is browsingContext.
The algorithm called in the next step is not prepared to deal with a null response. Probably we should synthesize one instead.
Let document be the result of creating and initializing a Document
object given "html
", "text/html
", and
navigationParams.
Either associate document with a custom rendering that is not rendered using
the normal Document
rendering rules, or mutate document until it
represents the content the user agent wants to render.
Once the page has been set up, the user agent must act as if it had stopped parsing.
After creating the Document
object, but potentially before the page has been
completely set up, the user agent must update the session history with the new page
given navigationParams and the newly-created Document
.
To navigate to a fragment given a browsing context browsingContext, a URL url, and a history handling behavior historyHandling:
If historyHandling is not "replace
", then remove
all the entries in browsingContext's session history after the
current entry. (If the current entry is the last entry in the session
history, then no entries are removed.)
This doesn't necessarily have to affect the user agent's user interface.
Remove any tasks queued by the history traversal
task source that are associated with any Document
objects in
browsingContext's top-level browsing context's document
family.
Append a new session history entry to the session history whose URL is url, document is the current entry's document, and scroll restoration mode is the current entry's scroll restoration mode.
Traverse the history to the new entry, with historyHandling set to historyHandling and with nonBlockingEvents set to true. This will scroll to the fragment given in what is now the document's URL.
If the scrolling fails because the relevant ID has not yet been parsed, then the original navigation algorithm will take care of the scrolling instead, as the last few steps of its update the session history with the new page algorithm.
When the user agent is required to scroll to the fragment and the indicated part of the document, if any, is being rendered, the user agent must either change the scrolling position of the document using the following algorithm, or perform some other action such that the indicated part of the document is brought to the user's attention. If there is no indicated part, or if the indicated part is not being rendered, then the user agent must do nothing. The aforementioned algorithm is as follows:
If there is no indicated part of the
document, set the Document
's target element to null.
If the indicated part of the document is the top of the document, then:
Set the Document
's target element to null.
Scroll to the beginning of the document for the Document
. [CSSOMVIEW]
Otherwise:
Let target be element that is the indicated part of the document.
Set the Document
's target element to
target.
Scroll target into view, with behavior set to "auto", block set to "start", and inline set to "nearest". [CSSOMVIEW]
Run the focusing steps for target, with the
Document
's viewport as the fallback target.
Move the sequential focus navigation starting point to target.
The indicated part of the document is the one that the fragment, if any, identifies. The semantics of the fragment in terms of mapping it to a node is defined by the
specification that defines the MIME type used by the Document
(for
example, the processing of fragments for XML MIME types is the responsibility of RFC7303). [RFC7303]
There is also a target element for each Document
, which is used in
defining the :target
pseudo-class and is updated by the
above algorithm. It is initially null.
For HTML documents (and HTML MIME types), the following processing model must be followed to determine what the indicated part of the document is.
If fragment is the empty string, then the indicated part of the document is the top of the document; return.
If find a potential indicated element with fragment returns non-null, then the return value is the indicated part of the document; return.
Let fragmentBytes be the result of percent-decoding fragment.
Let decodedFragment be the result of running UTF-8 decode without BOM on fragmentBytes.
If find a potential indicated element with decodedFragment returns non-null, then the return value is the indicated part of the document; return.
If decodedFragment is an ASCII case-insensitive match for the
string top
, then the indicated part of the document is the
top of the document; return.
There is no indicated part of the document.
To find a potential indicated element given a string fragment, run these steps:
If there is an element in the document tree that has an ID equal to fragment, then return the first such element in tree order.
If there is an a
element in the document
tree that has a name
attribute whose value is equal to
fragment, then return the first such element in tree order.
Return null.
To traverse the history to a session history entry entry,
with an optional history handling behavior historyHandling (default "default
"), an optional boolean nonBlockingEvents
(default false), and an optional boolean explicitHistoryNavigation (default
false):
This algorithm is not just invoked when explicitly going back or forwards in the session history — it is also invoked in other situations, for example when navigating a browsing context, as part of updating the session history with the new page.
If entry's document is null, then:
Assert: historyHandling is "default
".
If explicitHistoryNavigation is true, then set request's history-navigation flag.
Navigate the browsing
context to request with historyHandling
set to "entry update
". The navigation must be done using
the same source browsing context as was used the first time entry was
created.
The "navigate" algorithm reinvokes this "traverse" algorithm to complete the traversal, at which point entry's document is non-null.
If the resource was obtained using a non-idempotent action, for example a POST form submission, or if the resource is no longer available, for example because the computer is now offline and the page wasn't cached, navigating to it again might not be possible. In this case, the navigation will result in a different page than previously; for example, it might be an error message explaining the problem or offering to resubmit the form.
Return.
If the current entry's title is null, then
set its title to the value returned by the document.title
IDL attribute.
Save persisted state to the current entry.
Let newDocument be entry's document.
If newDocument is different than the current entry's document, or historyHandling is "entry update
" or "reload
",
then:
Remove any tasks queued by the history traversal
task source that are associated with any Document
objects in the
top-level browsing context's document family.
If newDocument's origin is not same origin with the current entry's document's origin, then:
Let entriesToUpdate be all entries in the session history whose document's origin is same origin as the active document and that are contiguous with the current entry.
For each entryToUpdate of entriesToUpdate, set entryToUpdate's browsing context name to the current browsing context name.
If the browsing context is a top-level browsing context, but not an auxiliary browsing context whose disowned is false, then set the browsing context's name to the empty string.
Set the active document of the browsing context to newDocument.
If entry's browsing context name is not null, then:
Set the browsing context's name to entry's browsing context name.
Let entriesToUpdate be all entries in the session history whose document's origin is same origin as the new active document's origin and that are contiguous with entry.
For each entryToUpdate of entriesToUpdate, set entryToUpdate's browsing context name to null.
If newDocument has any form controls whose
autofill field name is "off
",
invoke the reset algorithm of each of those
elements.
If newDocument's current document readiness "complete
", then queue a global task on the DOM
manipulation task source given newDocument's relevant global
object to run the following steps:
If newDocument's page showing flag is true, then abort these steps.
Set newDocument's page showing flag to true.
Run any session history document visibility change steps for newDocument that are defined by other applicable specifications.
This is specifically intended for use by Page Visibility. [PAGEVIS]
Fire an event named pageshow
at newDocument's relevant global
object, using PageTransitionEvent
, with the persisted
attribute initialized to true,
and legacy target override flag set.
Let hashChanged be false, and let oldURL and newURL be null.
If entry's URL's fragment is not identical to the current entry's URL's fragment, and entry's document equals the current entry's document, then set hashChanged to true, set oldURL to the current entry's URL, and set newURL to entry's URL.
If historyHandling is "replace
", then remove
the entry immediately before entry in the session history.
If entry's persisted user state is null, and its URL's fragment is non-null, then scroll to the fragment.
Set the current entry to entry.
Let targetRealm be the current Realm Record.
Let state be null.
If entry's serialized state is not null, then set state to StructuredDeserialize(entry's serialized state, targetRealm). If this throws an exception, catch it and ignore the exception.
Let stateChanged be true if newDocument has a latest entry, and that entry is not entry; otherwise let it be false.
Set newDocument's latest entry to entry.
If nonBlockingEvents is false, then run the following steps immediately. Otherwise, queue a global task on the DOM manipulation task source given newDocument's relevant global object to run the following steps instead.
If stateChanged is true, then fire an
event named popstate
at newDocument's
relevant global object, using PopStateEvent
, with the state
attribute initialized to state.
Restore persisted state from entry.
If hashChanged is true, then fire an
event named hashchange
at the browsing
context's active window, using HashChangeEvent
, with the oldURL
attribute initialized to oldURL
and the newURL
attribute initialized to
newURL.
To save persisted state to a session history entry entry:
Set the scroll position data of entry to contain the scroll positions for all of entry's document's restorable scrollable regions.
Optionally, update entry's persisted user state to reflect any state that the user agent wishes to persist, such as the values of form fields.
To restore persisted state from a session history entry entry:
If entry's scroll restoration
mode is "auto
", then the user agent may
use entry's scroll position data to restore
the scroll positions of entry's document's
restorable scrollable regions.
The user agent not restoring scroll positions does not imply that scroll positions will be left at any particular value (e.g., (0,0)). The actual scroll position depends on the navigation type and the user agent's particular caching strategy. So web applications cannot assume any particular scroll position but rather are urged to set it to what they want it to be.
Optionally, update other aspects of entry's document and its rendering, for instance values of form fields, that the user agent had previously recorded in entry's persisted user state.
This can even include updating the dir
attribute
of textarea
elements or input
elements whose type
attribute is in either the Text state or the Search state, if the persisted state includes the
directionality of user input in such controls.
The restorable scrollable regions of a Document
document are
document's viewport, and all of document's scrollable regions
excepting any child browsing contexts of
document.
Child browsing context scroll restoration is handled by the history
entry for those browsing contexts' Document
s.
PopStateEvent
interfaceSupport in all current engines.
[Exposed=Window]
interface PopStateEvent : Event {
constructor(DOMString type, optional PopStateEventInit eventInitDict = {});
readonly attribute any state;
};
dictionary PopStateEventInit : EventInit {
any state = null;
};
state
Returns a copy of the information that was provided to pushState()
or replaceState()
.
The state
attribute must return the
value it was initialized to. It represents the context information for the event, or null, if the
state represented is the initial state of the Document
.
HashChangeEvent
interfaceSupport in all current engines.
[Exposed=Window]
interface HashChangeEvent : Event {
constructor(DOMString type, optional HashChangeEventInit eventInitDict = {});
readonly attribute USVString oldURL;
readonly attribute USVString newURL;
};
dictionary HashChangeEventInit : EventInit {
USVString oldURL = "";
USVString newURL = "";
};
oldURL
Returns the URL of the session history entry that was previously current.
newURL
Returns the URL of the session history entry that is now current.
Support in all current engines.
The oldURL
attribute must return
the value it was initialized to. It represents context information for the event, specifically the
URL of the session history entry that was traversed from.
Support in all current engines.
The newURL
attribute must return
the value it was initialized to. It represents context information for the event, specifically the
URL of the session history entry that was traversed to.
PageTransitionEvent
interfaceSupport in all current engines.
[Exposed=Window]
interface PageTransitionEvent : Event {
constructor(DOMString type, optional PageTransitionEventInit eventInitDict = {});
readonly attribute boolean persisted;
};
dictionary PageTransitionEventInit : EventInit {
boolean persisted = false;
};
persisted
For the pageshow
event, returns false if the page is
newly being loaded (and the load
event will fire). Otherwise,
returns true.
For the pagehide
event, returns false if the page is
going away for the last time. Otherwise, returns true, meaning that (if nothing conspires to
make the page unsalvageable) the page might be reused if the user navigates back to this
page.
Things that can cause the page to be unsalvageable include:
Document
alive in a session
history entry after unload
iframe
s that are not salvageable
WebSocket
objects
Document
Support in all current engines.
The persisted
attribute must
return the value it was initialized to. It represents the context information for the event.
A Document
has a completely loaded time (a time or null), which is
initially null.
A Document
is considered completely loaded if its completely
loaded time is non-null.
To completely finish loading a Document
document:
Assert: document's browsing context is non-null.
Set document's completely loaded time to the current time.
Let container be document's browsing context's container.
If container is an iframe
element, then queue an element
task on the DOM manipulation task source given container to run
the iframe load event steps given container.
Otherwise, if container is non-null, then queue an element task on
the DOM manipulation task source given container to fire an event named load
at
container.
A Document
has a salvageable state, which must initially be
true, and a page showing flag, which must initially be false. The page
showing flag is used to ensure that scripts receive pageshow
and pagehide
events
in a consistent manner (e.g. that they never receive two pagehide
events in a row without an intervening pageshow
, or vice versa).
Event loops have a termination nesting level counter, which must initially be 0.
To prompt to unload, given a Document
object document and optionally a recursiveFlag, run these steps:
Increase the event loop's termination nesting level by 1.
Increase the document's ignore-opens-during-unload counter by 1.
Let event be the result of creating an event using
BeforeUnloadEvent
.
Initialize event's type
attribute to beforeunload
and its cancelable
attribute true.
Dispatch: Dispatch event at document's relevant global object.
Decrease the event loop's termination nesting level by 1.
If all of the following are true:
document's active sandboxing flag set does not have its sandboxed modals flag set
document's relevant global object has sticky activation
event's canceled flag is set, or the returnValue
attribute of event is
not the empty string
then the user agent may ask the user to confirm that they wish to unload the document.
The message shown to the user is not customizable, but instead determined by
the user agent. In particular, the actual value of the returnValue
attribute is ignored.
The user agent is encouraged to avoid asking the user for confirmation if it judges that doing so would be annoying, deceptive, or pointless.
If the user agent asks the user for confirmation, it must pause while waiting for the user's response.
If the user did not confirm the page navigation, then the user agent refused to allow the document to be unloaded.
If the recursiveFlag is not set, then:
Let descendants be the list of the descendant browsing contexts of document.
For each browsingContext in descendants:
Prompt to unload browsingContext's active document with the recursiveFlag set.
If the user refused to allow the document to be unloaded, then the user implicitly also refused to allow document to be unloaded; break.
Decrease the document's ignore-opens-during-unload counter by 1.
To unload a
Document
document, optionally given a recursiveFlag:
Increase the event loop's termination nesting level by one.
Increase document's ignore-opens-during-unload counter by one.
If document's page showing flag is false, then jump to the
step labeled unload event below (i.e. skip firing the pagehide
event and don't rerun the unloading document
visibility change steps).
Set document's page showing flag to false.
If the user agent does not intend to keep document alive in a session history entry (such that it can be reused later on history traversal), set document's salvageable state to false.
Fire an event named pagehide
at document's relevant global
object, using PageTransitionEvent
, with the persisted
attribute initialized to true if
document's salvageable state is
true, and false otherwise, and legacy target override flag set.
Run any unloading document visibility change steps for document that are defined by other applicable specifications.
This is specifically intended for use by Page Visibility. [PAGEVIS]
Unload event: If document's salvageable state is false, then fire an event named unload
at document's relevant global object, with legacy target override
flag set.
Decrease the event loop's termination nesting level by one.
Run any unloading document cleanup steps for document that are defined by this specification and other applicable specifications.
If the recursiveFlag is not set, then:
Let descendants be the list of the descendant browsing contexts of document.
For each browsingContext in descendants:
Unload the active document of browsingContext with the recursiveFlag set.
If the salvageable state of the active document of browsingContext is false, then set the salvageable state of document to false also.
If document's salvageable state is false, then discarddocument.
Decrease document's ignore-opens-during-unload counter by one.
This specification defines the following unloading document cleanup steps.
Other specifications can define more. Given a Document
document:
Let window be document's relevant global object.
For each WebSocket
object webSocket whose relevant global
object is window, make disappear webSocket.
If this affected any WebSocket
objects, then set document's salvageable state to false.
If document's salvageable state is false, then:
For each EventSource
object eventSource whose relevant
global object is equal to window, forcibly close
eventSource.
Empty window's list of active timers.
BeforeUnloadEvent
interfaceSupport in all current engines.
[Exposed=Window]
interface BeforeUnloadEvent : Event {
attribute DOMString returnValue;
};
There are no BeforeUnloadEvent
-specific initialization methods.
The BeforeUnloadEvent
interface is a legacy interface which allows prompting to unload to be controlled not only by canceling the
event, but by setting the returnValue
attribute to a value besides the empty string. Authors should use the preventDefault()
method, or other means of canceling
events, instead of using returnValue
.
The returnValue
attribute
controls the process of prompting to unload. When the event
is created, the attribute must be set to the empty string. On getting, it must return the last
value it was set to. On setting, the attribute must be set to the new value.
This attribute is a DOMString
only for historical reasons.
Any value besides the empty string will be treated as a request to ask the user for
confirmation.
To abort a Document
document:
Abort the active
documents of every child browsing context. If this results in any of those
Document
objects having their salvageable state set to false, then set
document's salvageable state to false
also.
Cancel any instances of the fetch algorithm in the context of document, discarding any tasks queued for them, and discarding any further data received from the network for them. If this resulted in any instances of the fetch algorithm being canceled or any queued tasks or any network data getting discarded, then set document's salvageable state to false.
If document has an active parser, then:
Set document's active parser was aborted to true.
Set document's salvageable state to false.
User agents may allow users to explicitly invoke the abort a
document algorithm for a Document
. If the user does so, then, if that
Document
is an active document, the user agent should queue a
task to fire an event named abort
at that Document
object's relevant global
object before invoking the abort algorithm.
To stop document loading given a Document
object document,
run these steps:
If document is not an active document, then return.
Let browsingContext be document's browsing context.
If there is an existing attempt to navigate browsingContext and that attempt is not currently running the unload a document algorithm, then cancel that navigation.
Abort document.
X-Frame-Options
` headerThe `X-Frame-Options
` HTTP response header is a legacy way of controlling whether
and how a Document
may be loaded inside of a child browsing context. It
is obsoleted by the frame-ancestors
CSP directive,
which provides more granular control over the same situations. It was originally defined in
HTTP Header Field X-Frame-Options, but the definition and processing
model here supersedes that document. [CSP] [RFC7034]
In particular, HTTP Header Field X-Frame-Options specified an `ALLOW-FROM
` variant of the header, but that is not to be implemented.
Per the below processing model, if
both a CSP frame-ancestors
directive and an
`X-Frame-Options
` header are used in the same response, then `X-Frame-Options
` is ignored.
For web developers and conformance checkers, its value ABNF is:
X-Frame-Options = "DENY" / "SAMEORIGIN"
To check a navigation response's adherence to `X-Frame-Options
`, given
a response response, a browsing
context browsingContext, and an origin
destinationOrigin:
If browsingContext is not a child browsing context, then return true.
For each policy of response's CSP list:
If policy's disposition is not "enforce
", then continue.
If policy's directive set contains a frame-ancestors
directive, then return true.
Let rawXFrameOptions be the result of getting, decoding, and splitting
`X-Frame-Options
` from response's header list.
Let xFrameOptions be a new set.
For each value of rawXFrameOptions, append value, converted to ASCII lowercase, to xFrameOptions.
If xFrameOptions's size is greater than 1, and
xFrameOptions contains any of "deny
", "allowall
", or "sameorigin
", then return false.
The intention here is to block any attempts at applying
`X-Frame-Options
` which were trying to do something valid, but appear confused.
This is the only impact of the legacy `ALLOWALL
` value
on the processing model.
If xFrameOptions's size is greater than 1, then return true.
This means it contains multiple invalid values, which we treat the same way as if the header was omitted entirely.
If xFrameOptions[0] is "deny
", then return
false.
If xFrameOptions[0] is "sameorigin
", then:
Let containerDocument be browsingContext's container document.
While containerDocument is not null:
If containerDocument's origin is not same origin with destinationOrigin, then return false.
Let containerBC be containerDocument's browsing context.
Set containerDocument to containerBC's container document, if containerBC is non-null; otherwise, null.
Return true.
If we've reached this point then we have a lone invalid value (which could
potentially be one the legacy `ALLOWALL
` or `ALLOW-FROM
` forms). These are treated as if the header were omitted
entirely.
The following table illustrates the processing of various values for the header, including non-conformant ones:
`X-Frame-Options ` | Valid | Result |
---|---|---|
`DENY ` | ✅ | embedding disallowed |
`SAMEORIGIN ` | ✅ | same-origin embedding allowed |
`INVALID ` | ❌ | embedding allowed |
`ALLOWALL ` | ❌ | embedding allowed |
`ALLOW-FROM=https://example.com/ ` | ❌ | embedding allowed (from anywhere) |
The following table illustrates how various non-conformant cases involving multiple values are processed:
`X-Frame-Options ` | Result |
---|---|
`SAMEORIGIN, SAMEORIGIN ` | same-origin embedding allowed |
`SAMEORIGIN, DENY ` | embedding disallowed |
`SAMEORIGIN, ` | embedding disallowed |
`SAMEORIGIN, ALLOWALL ` | embedding disallowed |
`SAMEORIGIN, INVALID ` | embedding disallowed |
`ALLOWALL, INVALID ` | embedding disallowed |
`ALLOWALL, ` | embedding disallowed |
`INVALID, INVALID ` | embedding allowed |
The same results are obtained whether the values are delivered in a single header whose value is comma-delimited, or in multiple headers.