Re: HTTPbis and the Same Origin Policy

Tyler Close wrote:
> ...
> For GET and POST requests that can be sent by the HTML form element,
> following the redirect is allowed by SOP. For more detail on the
> redirects allowed by SOP, see:
> 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009OctDec/att-0931/draft.html
> 
> So, foo.example.com may be allowed to redirect a POST to
> bar.example.com, or any other origin.
> 
> The SOP networking restrictions on requests only come into play for
> methods other than GET and POST, or for POST requests that have
> certain headers. Thats why I've been using PUT in this discussion.
> ...

Which of course begs the question why PUT is considered more dangerous 
than POST...

BR, Julian

Received on Thursday, 3 December 2009 18:05:21 UTC