ISSUE-27: Opting into methods/headers [Access Control] from Web Application Formats Working Group Issue Tracker on 2008-06-06 (public-appformats@w3.org from June 2008)

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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:25:36 +0000 (GMT)
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ISSUE-27: Opting into methods/headers [Access Control]

http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/waf/issues/

Raised by: Anne van Kesteren
On product: Access Control

The current Access Control model allows all methods to be used and all headers (apart from a blacklist and some headers require a preflight request in case of GET).

There is a proposal to only allow methods and headers the server has opted into. This would make the server more secure by default when opting into Access Control.

The drawback is again that it makes the model more complicated and more prone to bugs.

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