Re: [XHR2] Upload progress events and simple cross-origin requests

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote:
>
> In fact, it seems very likely that even timing of preflight requests 
> makes port scans possible, but I don't have any data to support this 
> theory.

Port scans are already possible with unscripted HTML using <img> elements 
and <meta http-equiv="refresh">, and are certainly already possible with 
<img> elements and onload=""/onerror="" events. We lost this particular 
battle a decade and a half ago when nobody was looking.

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Received on Thursday, 19 March 2009 07:30:12 UTC