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Re: Update to Access Control for Cross-site Requests

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:27:50 +0200
To: "Elias Sinderson" <elias@soe.ucsc.edu>
Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
Message-ID: <op.t889oov564w2qv@annevk-t60.oslo.opera.com>

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:18:03 +0200, Elias Sinderson <elias@soe.ucsc.edu>  
wrote:
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> I have updated the editor's draft of the Access Control for Cross-site  
>> Requests specification to include support for  HTTP headers [...]  
>> Nothing else has changed because no other changes have been proposed.
>
> Thanks for the update, much appreciated.
> I see no mention of If-* headers and cannot recall there being reason  
> provided to omit them (on-list, at least). Certainly being able to make  
> conditional requests that would otherwise be allowed as non-conditional  
> should be allowed?

They are allowed. Though even for GET requests they would require a  
preflight request first. Currently the only headers that are allowed  
without preflight (only GET requests can go without a preflight) are  
Accept and Accept-Language, based on earlier feedback from Ian Hickson.  
However, maybe we should simply remove those and always require a  
preflight request for a request with "custom" headers. Not sure.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
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