Re: Improving CORS security

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Devdatta Akhawe <dev.akhawe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, we do rely on it right now. We rely on a form of CSRF tokens to protect
> the requests so that evil.com can't make the request; while any XSS on the
> page can't affect the main origin.
>
> My point is that the vulnerability that null allows is the same in impact as
> the websites that just blindly reflect an origin. None of the proposals for
> that are talking about breaking existing apps and I think we should follow
> the same principle here.

Since breaking Dropbox doesn't really seem like an option, write a PR
against Fetch to remove the issue marker? Not much point in having it
there if it can't be implemented.


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Received on Wednesday, 10 May 2017 16:32:40 UTC