Re: UMP / CORS: Implementor Interest

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Tyler Close <tyler.close@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Devdatta <dev.akhawe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> While most of the discussion in this thread is just repeats of
>>> previous discussions, I think Tyler makes a good (and new) point in
>>> that the current CORS draft still has no mention of the possible
>>> security problems that Tyler talks about. The current draft's security
>>> section
>>>
>>> http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/access-control/#security
>>>
>>> is ridiculous considering the amount of discussion that has taken
>>> place on this issue on this mailing list.
>>>
>>> Before going to rec, I believe Anne needs to substantially improve
>>> this section - based on stuff from maybe Maciej's presentation - which
>>> I found really informative. He could also cite UMP as a possible
>>> option for those worried about security.
>>
>> I agree that the security section in CORS needs to be improved.
>>
>> As for the "should CORS exist" discussion, I'll bow out of those until
>> we're starting to move towards officially adopting a WG decision one
>> way or another, or genuinely new information is provided which would
>> affect such a decision (for the record, I don't think I've seen any
>> new information provided since last fall's TPAC).
>
> A smart guy once told me that "You can't tell people anything",
> meaning they have to experience it for themselves before they really
> get it. Has Mozilla tried to build anything non-trivial using CORS
> where cookies + Origin are the access control mechanism? If so, I'll
> do a security review of it and we'll see what we learn.

Not to my knowledge, no. I believe we use CORS for tinderboxpushlog
[1], however since that is only dealing with public data I don't
believe it uses cookies or Origin headers.

Feel free to review it anyway.

[1] http://tests.themasta.com/tinderboxpushlog/

/ Jonas

Received on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:39:05 UTC