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Re: [AC] Helping server admins not making mistakes

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:59:56 +0200
To: "Jon Ferraiolo" <jferrai@us.ibm.com>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.ucqo16xm64w2qv@annevk-t60.oslo.opera.com>

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:56:21 +0200, Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai@us.ibm.com>  
wrote:
> I took a look back to see what AC looked like back in Feb. 2007:
>
> * http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20070215/
>
> and the spec was very short and says "The policy described is only safe  
> for
> HEAD and GET requests. " Things have changed quite a bit since then.

Not really, it's just that we thought it made more sense to put the policy  
that was specific to XMLHttpRequest (part of XMLHttpRequest Level 2 at  
that time) into Access Control. The overall scope has not really changed  
since the initial proposal from Ian Hickson on the public-webapi list.


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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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