Re: XHR without user credentials

On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:39:19 +0200, Mark S. Miller <erights@google.com> wrote:
> This use-case was the motivation for ADsafe, though any of the JavaScript
> sanitizers would do.
>
> Without some such sanitization technology, it remains unsafe to load
> untrusted ads directly on your page. Adam and I are still arguing fine
> points of just how unsafe, but there's no question that the answer is at
> least "too unsafe".
>
> With GuestXMLHttpRequest, such sanitized ads could be allowed to call  
> home safely without being able to impersonate their containing page's origin.

Why can such ads not be embedded using a seamless sandboxed <iframe> from HTML5?


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Received on Tuesday, 9 June 2009 07:55:23 UTC