On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:07:33 +0100, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote: > On 2/19/08, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: >> The issue is that cross-site requests that are possible today for GET do >> not involve arbitrary headers made up by the author. Therefore servers >> could be vulnerable to cross-site GET requests that do have arbitrary >> headers set. This is a new attack vector and has nothing to do with the >> same-origin blacklist. > > Hmm, I'm really not getting this... > > Can you describe one of these possible vulnerabilities for me please? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-appformats/2008Feb/0191.html > And can you describe how it would only be triggered by a cross-site > request and not a regular old GET on the same URL? Currently cross-site GET requests with arbitrary headers set are not possible. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>Received on Wednesday, 20 February 2008 09:59:50 GMT
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