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Re: XHR and sandboxed iframes (was: Re: XHR without user credentials)

From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:09:05 -0700
Message-ID: <7789133a0906171709u774174c6w1bb0348cfe2590c0@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>
Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Tyler Close <tyler.close@gmail.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org> 
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Mark S. Miller<erights@google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>> But... we want the page talking on behalf of the user. That's the point
>> of a browser.
>
> Not in this way. At least not according to Roy Fielding (Mr. REST)
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2009JanMar/0037.html>.

That email also claims that "CSRF is not a security issue for the
Web," so I guess we need not worry about these issues.  :)

Adam
Received on Thursday, 18 June 2009 00:09:56 GMT

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