Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois_Beaufort?= Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 14:51:55 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GATT service blacklist To: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Cc: "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: For info, the Web Bluetooth team is tracking this issue at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=611678 We would really appreciate some consistency between Android, Mac OS and Linux platforms to query GAP service characteristics. Thanks in advance for considering this, Francois. On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote: > Hi, > > In Web Bluetooth there is a list of blacklisted attributes that may > leak some important information: > > https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/registries/blob/master/gatt_blacklist.txt > > Currently we don't support claiming attribute, which is what in the > end prevent a service to be exposed, so I would like to know the > opinion about having such a feature noting that this may lead to > conflicts such as plugins and application accessing the same > attributes which may or may not interfere. > > One of the service that web guys would like to access is GAP service > which is something BlueZ don't actually let them do since there is a > plugin accessing it, and given its name we can probably except changes > on every new Bluetooth release making me wary about exposing its > attributes over D-Bus. > > > -- > Luiz Augusto von Dentz > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html