Re: [access-control] Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and ascii-origin in IE8

Jonas Sicking wrote on 1/14/2009 12:53 PM: 
> The problem I think is that the current name, 'Origin',  is extremely
> generic and so it's likely to cause confusion once we get other
> headers containing origins.
> 
> That said, I do understand that this is a very late change for you
> guys. Developers will code to what works, so as long as things work
> the same across browsers, with regards to this and the CSRF protection
> header, things should be mostly ok.
> 
> What do other people think?

I liked your suggestion that would marry the two:

 Jonas Sicking wrote on 1/12/2009 7:22 PM: 
 > That said, here is a solution that might work for both Access-Control
 > and CSRF protection:
 > 
 > Site A makes a request to site B,
 >   the UA adds the header "Origin: A"
 > Site B redirects the request to site C,
 >   the UA adds the header "Origin: A, B"



- Bil

Received on Wednesday, 14 January 2009 19:36:52 UTC