As with bug 25886, and as previously discussed such as http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/220659 -- it would be useful for various next-generation user scripts, gadgets etc to have direct access to raw contents of uploaded files.
This is especially true for SVG and raster images, which if properly marked could be loaded in via XHR or img+canvas for editing and such. Currently, such tools must either have server-side support like the ApiSvgProxy plugin or use an offsite proxy on their own domain or via JSONP.
See Cross Origin Resource Sharing: http://www.w3.org/TR/access-control/
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20298