Re: HTTPbis and the Same Origin Policy

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:28 PM, "Martin J. Dürst"
<duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> On the other hand, if I write (e.g. using libcurl or whatever) a "webbot"
> that periodically checks the balance on one of my bank accounts and
> transfers money from another bank account of mine if the balance on the
> first bank account is low, then I don't see why anybody would want to forbid
> this.

As a point of amusement, I recently co-wrote a "stylebot" for the
WebKit project that violates the same-origin policy in precisely this
way (by shuffling data between a Bugzilla instance and another web
service).

Adam

Received on Tuesday, 1 December 2009 07:20:06 UTC