Re: Mozilla security review of Access Control

Brad Porter wrote:
> We should remember that non-malicious cross-site-requests with cookies 
> go on all the time.  A simple peek at your cookie store (or turning on 
> accept/reject of cookies) will show that many sites make 
> cross-site-requests with cookies all the time.  Banner ads on the web 
> work entirely based on cross-site GET requests with cookies.  There is 
> no same-origin policy for cross-site IMG, FRAME, etc requests with cookies.

As I outlined in my "to cookie or not to cookie" email, the concern 
isn't that new attack vectors are introduced. The concern is that 
servers will enable access control without realizing what it means.

/ Jonas

Received on Saturday, 23 February 2008 05:47:37 UTC