Re: The HTTP Origin Header (draft-abarth-origin)

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> 
> Further, the argument:
> 
> > the employee will not leak any information in the Origin header 
> > because it is not sent for GET requests.
> 
> ... will thus break when that same intranet has a 'search the with 
> loogle' field that sends a POST to the external site?

Search is usually done with GET, but even if it was, leaking a hostname 
isn't a big deal -- it's unlikely that confidential information will be in 
a hostname. (This is one reason why the Origin header doesn't include the 
path information.)

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Received on Friday, 23 January 2009 10:27:13 UTC