Re: Cross-site Requests and Custom HTTP Headers

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:47:24 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> So this means that we're saying that if the server sends a response like
>
> Access-Control: allow <*>
>
> to an OPTIONS request, the server should be prepared to handle requests  
> that contain *any* user set header? I know we've talked about having  
> another header in the reply to the OPTIONS request that specified which  
> headers would be allowed. This would make me feel safer to be honest.

I don't think we should go there. That would complicate things a lot and  
given that the headers will not be part of the OPTIONS request I don't  
really see the problem. Also note that we had something like that before  
for HTTP methods and removed it.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Monday, 25 February 2008 20:45:06 UTC