Re: redirect model for non-GET requests

-John

On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:41 AM, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>  
wrote:

>
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:27:03 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>  
> wrote:
>> If I do a POST using AC to a http://example.com/form.cgi and the  
>> initial OPTIONS request forwards to http://example.org/pub/ 
>> form.cgi, does that mean that the POST goes directly to the second  
>> URI?
>
> Yes, you proposed this (although I pointed out later that this was  
> already in the draft, though unclear):
>
>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2007Jul/0042.html
>
>
>> That seems like a bad idea to me since it makes cross-site requests  
>> behave very different from same-site requests, rather than just  
>> differing in authorization.
>
> I don't see what the issue is. They already behave very differently  
> as they require a preflight OPTIONS request. Comments like these do  
> worry me a bit about the state of your implementation though. :-(
>
>
Presumably the cgi could be requestable from a same-domain page as  
well. Leading to totally different (unintended) behavior in each case.
>

Received on Monday, 4 February 2008 17:20:03 UTC