[Qtwebengine] Windows Sandbox Support

[Andras Becsi]

Hi Jarred,

On 09/30/2014 03:24 AM, Jarred Nicholls wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I noticed that the --no-sandbox flag is flipped on, as evident in
> WebEngineContext[1].  Is there a technical reason that sandboxing is turned
> off?
>
> I ask because I noticed that wow_helper.exe is not deployed with the rest
> of the WebEngine dependencies.  wow_helper.exe is used to support
> sandboxing on Windows XP and Windows Vista.  I wondered if - in particular
> - Vista had been tested yet and figured it would never run without
> wow_helper.exe, and that led me to discovering that sandboxing is disabled
> altogether.
We disable sandboxing because it is not implemented form QtWebEngine. It 
is not just a question of deploying a binary, we miss quite some code to 
be able to sandbox the render-process on our supported platforms, and 
since we did not prioritize sandbox support with this release it is not 
going to be supported.

/Andras


>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jarred
>
> [1]:
> https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtwebengine/source/a0bd967d820f075128cd913d39334da47aac3f97:src/core/web_engine_context.cpp#L134
>
>
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András Bécsi
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