WorkerGlobalScope: crossOriginIsolated property

The crossOriginIsolated read-only property of the WorkerGlobalScope interface returns a boolean value that indicates whether the document is cross-origin isolated.

A cross-origin isolated document only shares its browsing context group with same-origin documents in popups and navigations, and resources (both same-origin and cross-origin) that the document has opted into using via CORS (and COEP for <iframe>). The relationship between a cross-origin opener of the document or any cross-origin popups that it opens are severed. The document may also be hosted in a separate OS process alongside other documents with which it can communicate by operating on shared memory. This mitigates the risk of side-channel attacks and cross-origin attacks referred to as XS-Leaks.

Cross-origin isolated documents operate with fewer restrictions when using the following APIs:

• SharedArrayBuffer can be created and sent via a DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope.postMessage() or a MessagePort.postMessage() call.
• Performance.now() offers better precision.
• Performance.measureUserAgentSpecificMemory() can be called.

A document will be cross-origin isolated if it is returned with an HTTP response that includes the headers:

• Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy header with the directive same-origin.
• Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy header with the directive require-corp or credentialless.

Access to the APIs must also be allowed by the Permissions-Policy cross-origin-isolated. Otherwise crossOriginIsolated property will return false, and the document will not be able to use the APIs listed above with reduced restrictions.

Value

A boolean value.

Examples

Cross-origin isolating a document

To cross-origin isolate a document:

• Set the Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy HTTP header to same-origin:

  Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin
  

• Set the Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy HTTP header to require-corp or credentialless:

  Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-corp
  Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: credentialless
  

• The cross-origin-isolated directive of the Permissions-Policy header must not block access to the feature. Note that the default allowlist of the directive is self, so the permission will be granted by default to cross-origin isolated documents.

Checking if the document is cross-origin isolated

const myWorker = new Worker("worker.js");

if (self.crossOriginIsolated) {
  const buffer = new SharedArrayBuffer(16);
  myWorker.postMessage(buffer);
} else {
  const buffer = new ArrayBuffer(16);
  myWorker.postMessage(buffer);
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Window.crossOriginIsolated