Re: Why the restriction on unauthenticated GET in CORS?

On 18 Jul 2012, at 05:47, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Henry Story wrote:
>> 
>> So my argument is that this restriction could be lifted since 
>> 
>> 1. GET is indempotent - and should not affect the resource fetched
>> 
>> 2. If there is no authentication, then the JS Agent could make the 
>> request via a CORS praxy of its choosing, and so get the content of the 
>> resource anyhow.
> 
> No, such a proxy can't get to intranet pages.
> 
> "Authentication" on the Internet can include many things, e.g. IP 
> addresses or mere connectivity, that are not actually included in the body 
> of an HTTP GET request. It's more than just cookies and HTTP auth headers.

Ah yes, quite right.  Tricky space...

Perhaps my question can be useful in your CORS design-decisions-faq .

Thanks,

	Henry


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