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Permissions-Policy: gamepad directive

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The HTTP Permissions-Policy header gamepad directive controls whether the current document is allowed to use the Gamepad API.

Specifically, where a defined policy blocks use of this feature, calls to getGamepads() will throw a SecurityError DOMException. In addition, the gamepadconnected and gamepaddisconnected events will not fire.

Syntax

Permissions-Policy: gamepad=<allowlist>;
  • <allowlist>

Default policy

The default allowlist for gamepad is *.

Examples

General example

SecureCorp Inc. wants to disable the Gamepad API within all browsing contexts except for its own origin and those whose origin is https://example.com. It can do so by delivering the following HTTP response header to define a Permissions Policy:

Permissions-Policy: gamepad=(self "https://example.com")

With an <iframe> element

FastCorp Inc. wants to disable gamepad for all cross-origin child frames, except for a specific <iframe>. It can do so by delivering the following HTTP response header to define a Permissions Policy:

Permissions-Policy: gamepad=(self)

Then include an <allow> attribute on the <iframe> element:

<iframe src="https://other.com/game" allow="gamepad"></iframe>

iframe attributes can selectively enable features in certain frames, and not in others, even if those frames contain documents from the same origin.

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.

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