Re: CORS and Caching (in reverse proxies / CDNs)

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Nils Goroll <slink@schokola.de> wrote:
> Please consider the simple case of a web font http://static.do.main/font.woff
> which, for licensing reasons, is to be shared with a set of specific origins
> only, so using 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *' is not an option.

It is. You could terminate the request if the Origin request header
was not "correct".


> I'd appreciate pointers if this issue had been discussed before, as I have
> failed to find any previous discussion in the list archives.

If we were to do this at this point we probably have to introduce a
new header or force everyone to sniff user agents for support.
However, there haven't been many requests for it.


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Received on Wednesday, 30 April 2014 12:48:21 UTC