Re: [CSP] prevent 401 attach

We discussed this issue at TPAC and decided to postpone any resolution
to CSP Level 3.

Minutes of the discussion are available at

http://www.w3.org/2014/10/27-webappsec-minutes.html#item11

And it is tracked by ISSUE-68:

https://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/track/issues/68

-Brad Hill

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Hatter Jiang <jht5945@gmail.com> wrote:
>> <img src="http://www.example.com/cookie-mapping-pixel.jpg?cookie-id=123456">
>>
>> But when `www.example.com` was hacked, the server return `401` HTTP header,
>> then the browser will popup a window let the user input username and
>> password, and the user may not know the username and password is needed by
>> `www.example.com` not from your website.In our website, we never use 401
>> auth.
>>
>> So can we add the CSP like:
>>
>> http-auth: block;
>>
>> Then the browser see this policy, when the resource require 401 auth, this
>> request can be blocked.
>>
>> I think many sites need feature like this.
>
> Control over whether an authentication response causes a dialog is
> something we want to offer (perhaps also through CSP, makes sense).
> I'm not sure if we want to an authentication response to cause a
> network error. That seems like an orthogonal feature.
>
>
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>

Received on Tuesday, 4 November 2014 23:11:31 UTC