[whatwg] Origin header and forms

2008-07-09 Thread Jonas Sicking
Hi All, The Access-Control spec [1] adds an 'Origin' header that is submitted with all requests. I propose that we specify that form POSTs should do the same. This would be a very powerful mechanism to prevent CSRF attacks as it would allow CSRF prevention to happen in the server, rather

Re: [whatwg] Origin header and forms

2008-07-09 Thread Collin Jackson
Adam Barth, John Mitchell, and I have written an academic paper in support of the Origin header as a CSRF defense: http://crypto.stanford.edu/websec/csrf/ On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Jonas Sicking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, The Access-Control spec [1] adds an 'Origin' header that is