Re: [widgets] WARP and redirects

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2011, at 09:53 , Marcos Caceres wrote:
>> Consider this scenario: the widget requests access to www.google.com.
>> On a local level google redirects to .pl or co.in . With WARP, if we
>> checked redirects the local google page would be blocked. It would be
>> impossible for any developer to take care of all those country wide
>> domains in the normal way (and it does not scale). So we would want to
>> allow this. Also in widgets XHRs resulting in 301s are followed and
>> the final content is returned (this wasn't how it worked but was fixed
>> later).
>>
>> For a future version of WARP to work effectively, the spec should give
>> the option of allow for redirects (or should do this automatically):
>>
>> <access origin="http://x.com" redirects="true"/>
>
> That's a security hole begging to happen. A lot of perfectly legit sites have a built-in redirect service. People use that, notably, to be notified of when a user leaves their site through a link they clicked, so instead of linking to http://berjon.com/ they link to http://nyt.com/redirect?to=http://berjon.com/.
>
> So with your suggested approach, all a malicious widget has to do is request access to a perfectly valid data source under whatever false pretence, and then use its redirector service to go to evil.com, or to hit stuff that should be hidden on your private network:
>
>    // grab all of Marcos's print jobs
>    http://perfectly-legit.com/redirect?to=http://localhost:631/jobs?which_jobs=all

How it is any different in a browser?


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Marcos Caceres
http://datadriven.com.au

Received on Monday, 20 June 2011 10:31:46 UTC