Comment by neftaly

7 years ago

FWIW, NI URIs[0] were a stab at this. So you'd have something protocol-independent, like <video src="ni:///sha-256;UyaQV-Ev4rdLoHyJJWCi11OHfrYv9E1aGQAlMO2X_-Q" />.

I hoped they'd be part of the subresource integrity[1] spec, but a simpler system was chosen. That said, you could still piggyback on <img src="whocares" integrity="sha384-oqVuAfXRKap7fdgcCY5uykM6+R9GqQ8K/uxy9rx7HNQlGYl1kPzQho1wx4JwY8wC" /> to deliver protocol-agnostic content.