Re: Do we need to rename the Origin header?

On Mon, 24 May 2010, Bil Corry wrote:
> Adam Barth wrote on 7/16/2009 10:38 AM: 
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Bil Corry<bil@corry.biz> wrote:
> >> I think you mean everything will NOT be privacy-sensitive except non-XHR GETs.
> > 
> > I don't think we've quite settled on exactly what will be privacy
> > sensitive.  It's most likely that POSTs and XHR will not be and that
> > hyperlinks and image loads will be.  The goal is to harmonize with the
> > Mozilla proposal.
> 
> I haven't been following the progress of this, has "privacy-sensitive" been defined in HTML5 yet?

Yes.


> The only reference I could find was in "2.6 Fetching Resources":
> 
> ---8<---
> For the purposes of the Origin  header, if the fetching algorithm was explicitly initiated from an origin, then the origin that initiated the HTTP request is origin. Otherwise, this is a request from a "privacy-sensitive" context. [ORIGIN]
> 
> (from: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/urls.html#fetching-resources)
> --->8---

That is the definition.

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