Re: [access-control] Proposal

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:20:09 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> CROSS-SITE POST
>>
>> We limit the amount of Content-Type header values people can set for the
>> simple cross-site POST request to those you can use with HTML forms
>> today. This list will not become a fixed list until we work out how
>> Access Control for Cross-Site Requests will work together with HTML5
>> forms.
>
> This will lead to people lying about Content-Types, which is one of the
> big problems with XDR. I don't think this is a good thing. (In  
> particular, it prevents us from sending XML over XHR, which is dumb  
> given the name of
> the object if nothing else! Sending JSON and XML are the two biggest use
> cases of this API.)

The idea is not to prevent it, but to require a preflight request for the  
non-HTML forms Content-Types.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>

Received on Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:16:03 UTC