Re: A Somewhat Critical View of SOP (Same Origin Policy)

On 2015-09-01 07:16, Tony Arcieri wrote:
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>     Since neither You nor Google/Microsoft/Apple/Mozilla/Whatever haven't told us anything on how *they* think that any number of unrelated merchants should/could get access to a client's payment resources on Web, we are apparently awaiting "Divine Intervention" :-)
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> I like the idea of Stripe-style payment widgets. These allow payment tokens to be provisioned on a particular origin, and payments made via JS/communicating iframes.

Stripe is apparently hoping to become a super-provider.  Unless they succeed with that, their solution is dead in water.
That's the core I (apparently in vain) tried to outline in my original posting.

Anders

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> There are obviously a lot of unsolved concerns around this approach, particularly around things like secure content embedding, phishing, clickjacking, etc. The Position Observer API proposal looks interesting in that regard:
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> https://github.com/slightlyoff/PositionObserver/blob/master/explainer.md
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> Tony Arcieri

Received on Tuesday, 1 September 2015 05:29:47 UTC