Re: Do we need to rename the Origin header?

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>
>> Well, they have semantically different meanings:
>>
>> The Access-Control one means "this is the party I'm sending data to".
>> The CSRF one means "this is the party that initiated the request".
>
> In particular, with CSRF, the requesting party is _not_ the party to which
> the server is sending data.
>
> I agree that using the same header is problematic. For HTML5 I'm happy to
> use whatever header people want. In fact ideally I'd love there to be an
> RFC or some documentation somewhere defining the header that HTML5 uses,
> so that I can reference that when requiring it be sent.
>
> Should I remove or rename 'Origin' in HTML5 for now?

Well, HTML5 isn't the only place where this header has been discussed,
but it wouldn't be a bad idea I think.

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 02:00:09 UTC