Re: Referrer Policy: Same-origin URIs

Please forgive my (continued) ignorance, but isn't keeping secrets out
of GET requests the law of the land for secure web application
development?

Aloha,
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Jim Manico
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> On Nov 9, 2014, at 6:48 AM, Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@coredump.cx> wrote:
>
> Thinking a bit more about this: it's probably more reasonable if
> you're hoping to safeguard tokens from ending up in various Referer
> analytics reports for unrelated parts of the site (the access to which
> may be delegated to people who have no interest in seeing the URLs).
>
> I still feel that if we're adding so much complexity to the directive,
> we should probably just bite the bullet and allow people to specify
> policies for domains in a CSP fashion, i.e., detailed referrer goes to
> *.google.com, *.google.com.pl, *.facebook.com/foo, origin referrer
> goes to *, etc. It would let people use analytics across multi-domain
> properties while reaping the benefits of a safe default for the rest
> of the Internet.
>
> /mz
>

Received on Saturday, 8 November 2014 23:22:57 UTC