Re: [MIX] Require HTTPS scripts to be able to anything HTTP scripts can do.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote:
> They are not.  Data is special

Right. I think you could make your point more clear if rather than
talking about scripts (which could themselves create <script> elements
and such) you instead focused on the use case you care about, loading
some data from another origin.

There's already a problem with that today, it requires the other
origin to use CORS. If it does not have that you need to use a proxy
(or indeed a native app).

If you want to authenticate your application it requires the other
origin to support TLS (in addition to CORS). Again, you can use a
proxy to circumvent this (or indeed a native app).

Not having these restrictions in place enables all kinds of attacks
and classic bugs ;-)


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Received on Monday, 5 January 2015 11:45:55 UTC