Re: XHR and sandboxed iframes (was: Re: XHR without user credentials) from Mark S. Miller on 2009-06-17 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2009)

From: Mark S. Miller <erights@google.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:43:07 -0700
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Cc: Tyler Close <tyler.close@gmail.com>, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4d2fac900906171343h783c5602id05d69a8be149700@mail.gmail.com>

> > Is there no way to make the unique origin sandboxed iframe cookieless? I
> > suppose, if not, the containing page could create a fresh unique origin
> > sandboxed iframe per request, but seems rather heavy. Would that
> > successfully render the resulting network messages cookieless?
>
> Cookies (and HTTP authentication) in a request do not depend on the source
> but on the destination. So XMLHttpRequest would have to be explicitly told
> not to include them for one reason or another.
>

Doh! Momentary confusion on my part. Thanks for catching this.

-- 
   Cheers,
   --MarkM

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