Define serialization of a site

[apasel422]

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/origin.html#sites defines:

A site is an opaque origin or a scheme-and-host.

Would it be possible to export an algorithm for the serialization of a site?

[domenic]

Can you state the motivation for such a change?

[apasel422]

We'd like to be able to serialize a site in WICG/attribution-reporting-api#257 as part of WICG/attribution-reporting-api#247.

[domenic]

OK. Can you summarize those issues for the HTML Standard community?

[apasel422]

The draft specification for the Attribution Reporting API operates on sites, rather than origins, in some aspects, and needs to serialize sites as strings in JSON documents. The HTML standard, which defines "site", does not export an algorithm for serializing a site, a scheme-and-host, or a host, as far as I can tell.