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Re: Accountability in AC4CSR

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:13:46 +0000 (UTC)
To: John Panzer <jpanzer@acm.org>
Cc: "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0802120709570.20115@hixie.dreamhostps.com>

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, John Panzer wrote:
> 
> My point here is just that there are existing mechanisms that are 
> already deployed in the field to deal with these attacks.  And to plead, 
> as a side note, not to block the use of such mechanisms for AC4CSR...

I'm not sure we could block them if we tried. :-)

(Though they might need to use different headers, of course -- we 
obviously can't allow scripts doing cross-origin requests to arbitrarily 
change HTTP authenticiation headers.)

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