Re: UMP / CORS: Implementor Interest

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:11 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
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> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:36:50 +0900, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote:
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> Unfortunately "ambient" doesn't have any good antonyms:
>
> http://www.synonym.com/antonym/ambient/
>
> Simon suggested XMLHttpRequestNoContext in #whatwg. Seems relatively clear
> and works nicely with indexes and autocomplete.
>
>
> Other ideas (also suffix variants instead of prefix variants):
> - GuestXMLHttpRequest
> Suggested by Mark originally. We now envision more use cases than guest
> code, however, "guest" is also the traditional name for an unprivileged
> account.
> - UnprivilegedXMLHttpRequest (or abbreviate to NoPrivs)
> - NoAuthorityXMLHttpRequest (or abbreviate to NoAuth, though that may seem
> like "no authentication")
> - NoCredentialsXMLHttpRequest (or abbreviate to NoCred)
> Can anyone else think of ideas? I tried to mentally fill in sentences like,
> "I don't want to do this as root, I want to use a/an _______ account" or "I
> don't want to be logged into site X, I want to be ________ when I visit it."
> Regards,
> Maciej
>

Here's some new directions ...

ContextFreeRequest
StatelessRequest
SessionlessRequest

or, since we're really talking about cookies here ...

CookielessRequest
CookieFreeRequest
SugarFreeRequest
IncognitoRequest    (playing off of Chrome's "Incognito" mode, which
doesn't use your browser's normal cookie store)

-- Dirk

Received on Thursday, 22 April 2010 18:30:01 UTC