Re: [xhr] proxy-connection header

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:52:06 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> The part I'm worried about is that the Authorization header will be  
> picked up by your (the authors) web sever. However Proxy-Authorization  
> will be picked up by the proxy. Using this you can potentially launch a  
> distributed brute-force password attack against a company proxy. This is  
> why I'm in general thinking that disallowing Proxy-* might be a good  
> idea.

Ok, fair enough:  
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/Overview.html?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8#setrequestheader

Is that better?


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Wednesday, 25 July 2007 14:30:34 UTC