[webkit-help] NPAPI plugins (Kotteeswaran E)

[Kotteeswaran E]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply and support.
Our idea is develop a web based customized application (substitute to
android) with webkit (option A).
Our product is having wifi, BT, etc. We want to control all these via
plugins. When I was analysing this, I found NPAPI & PPAPI plugins and
security concerns. I just wanted to confirm, hacking may happen as it is
web based. When I make these calls via plugins.
thanks & regards,
Kotteeswaran.E

Hi,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
My concern is that as Google says, the NPAPI plugins are having

security issues as they plugins are available to the hackers.

We plan to implement PPAPI & NACL in webkit instead of NPAPI Plugin

calls.

But We are not sure whether the PPAPI & NACL are portable to webkit

environment as a topic in firebreath says that Nacl is supported only in
google browsers i.e. it won't support third party browsers. And firebreath
is doing its own native messaging.

Please share ur valuable suggestions in this.

Could you specify your goals more precisely? Are you going to
a) develop native application using customized WebKit engine, with your
additions implemented via plugin, or
b) develop plugin which would be possible to use in different
WebKit-based browsers?
If the answer is (a), portability should not be a concern for you, since
you are in control of your environment, but you also don't have to use
NPAPI/PPAPI-style plugins, because you can modify engine at your will.

thanks & regards,
Kotteeswaran.E

Hi,
We are planning to develop our a webkit based GUI kind of thing. When

we browsed in the net, we came to know that Chrome and Mozilla are not
supporting NPAPI plugins due to security reasons and chrome is switching to
PPAPI plugin with NACl.

But in firebreath url, we saw that "PPAPI can be used in conjunction

with NaCL but NACl is supported only on google chrome."

Our plan is to use python based plugin based calls in our product.
Please suggest us a way to proceed.

FYI, there is a wrapper that allows running PPAPI plugin in
https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin
Currently it is focused on running modern versions of Flash plugin

inside Firefox.

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