[symfony-users] Re: How to secure links with CSRF

2010-01-26 Thread Enrico Stahn
finally gerryvdm from the #symfony irc channel gave me a good answer: [17:12] gerryvdm: the goal is to prevent users unwillingly perform actions on your site, which really only should be possible when submitting a form [17:13] gerryvdm: never use GET requests for destructive operations [17:15]

[symfony-users] Re: How to secure links with CSRF

2010-01-20 Thread absalito
CSRF is about protecting forms of spamming, adding a field generated at runtime that identifies the form as unique. if the form is used otherwise than through the application, the field for csrf will not be valid, and therefore it will be identified as an attack. see it on wikipedia

[symfony-users] Re: How to secure links with CSRF

2010-01-20 Thread Enrico Stahn
Hi absalito, I'm already familiar with the topic in general, but thanks for mention wikipedia because of: The attacker must determine the right values for all the form's or URL's inputs. This means for my understanding URLs are a valid possibility to request actions that change data, therefore