Re: CORS and 304

On 2013-12-04 13:15, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
>> So you mean that if a CGI does a 304 redirect and sends some response
>> headers and a response body, then apache will filter out the headers but
>> send the 304 and the body? Is this specific to 304s?
>
> 304 is not strictly a redirect. 304 is "Not Modified". An indication
> from the server that you can use the cached copy.
>
>
>> Either way, a security issue can't be ignored because servers suck. We
>> should still require the headers to be sent. Authors can always use other
>> 30x responses.
>
> Not for these semantics.
>
>
> Mark, Julian, do you think CORS headers should be required on a 304 response?

I'm not familiar enough with CORS.

Having said that: if a 200 response works without CORS headers then I 
don't see why they would be needed (or what they would be good for) on a 
304.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:14:40 UTC