On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 9:19:40 AM UTC+1, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:16 PM, James Burke <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Mobile use is really large. Native mobile apps do not have
> > restrictions from these APIs.
> 
> As indicated most don't need them either.
> 
> 
> > If web sites are concerned about getting
> > cross domain hits, they can get them now from native apps.
> 
> The only reason "native apps" have these is because they are centrally
> vetted and distributed. And not having that is what makes the web
> great.

In some peoples' eyes this rather cripples the web since it can't run trusted 
(vetted) code which after the demise of NPAPI and ActiveX become an even bigger 
issue.

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-paves-over-hole-left-by-chrome-plug-in-ban/

> 
> 
> > We definitely need to be careful, making sure we do not pass things
> > like cookies for these types of requests, and to also allow for
> > services to explicitly indicate they do not want to allow these types
> > of connections, but what has been suggested instead of using these
> > types of APIs does not seem better.
> 
> XSRF is not the primary concern. Firewalled content is the concern.
> 
> 
> -- 
> https://annevankesteren.nl/
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