Re: Scientific Literature on Capabilities (was Re: CORS versus Uniform Messaging?)

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Tyler Close wrote:
> 
> No, there is a difference in access-control between the two designs.
> 
> In the two header design:
> 1) An XHR GET of the XBL file data by example.org *is* allowed.
> 2) An <xbl> import of the XBL data by example.org triggers a rendering error.

That's a bad design. It would make people think they had secured the file 
when they had not.

Security should be consistent across everything.


> In the one header design:
> 1) An XHR GET of the XBL file data by example.org is *not* allowed.
> 2) An <xbl> import of the XBL data by example.org triggers a rendering error.

That's what I want.


> Under the two header design, everyone has read access to the raw bits
> of the XBL file.

That's a bad thing.


> The one header design makes an empty promise to protect read access to 
> the XBL file.

How is it an empty promise?

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