On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Zhenhua Guo <[email protected]> wrote:

>  If I understand it right, client side needs to get the domain prefix
> (which is base32(sha1(gadget_url)) for now). There are couple ways to
> get it
>  1) Retrieve the gadget metadata.
>    the url is included in the gadget metadata (can be obtained via
> call to the metadata interface)
>  2) calculate it in javascript
>

Correct. Option #1 is preferable to let a single place (the server) be the
source of truth for domain information.


>  My question is that DNS must be modified to make all <*.example.com>
> (assume example.com is my domain)  point to example.com. Is that
> right? Otherwise, the domain with hash prefix cannot be resolved?
>

That's correct.

-j


>
> Gerald
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:40 PM, John Hjelmstad <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Gabriel:
> >
> > This is precisely what the "locked-domain" feature does.
> >
> > The default implementation in Shindig - which Google uses - is to
> generate a
> > URL w/ prefix base32(sha1(gadgetUrl)).
> >
> > This occurs when:
> > A) the gadget requires "locked-domain" explicitly
> > B) the gadget requires another feature that has a <dependency> on
> > locked-domain
> > C) the container is set up (in its ContainerConfig, via key
> > "gadgets.uri.iframe.lockedDomainRequired" with type boolean) to demand
> > locked-domain for all renders
> >
> > The validation algorithm is thus:
> > A. when a gadget requires locked-domain, it MUST have a locked-domain
> > prefix.
> > B. if the domain on which a gadget is rendered has *any* valid
> locked-domain
> > *suffix*, mark as invalid.
> >
> > Doing this ensures the domain isolation of each gadget.
> >
> > The bulk of this functionality is implemented in the Java implementation
> in:
> >
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/shindig/trunk/java/gadgets/src/main/java/org/apache/shindig/gadgets/uri/DefaultIframeUriManager.java
> >
> > INVALID_DOMAIN is returned in the mismatched cases. locked-domain URLs
> are
> > generated if (usingLockedDomain(...)).
> >
> > The default prefix generator is:
> >
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/shindig/trunk/java/gadgets/src/main/java/org/apache/shindig/gadgets/uri/HashShaLockedDomainPrefixGenerator.java
> >
> > --j
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Gabriel Guardincerri <
> [email protected]>wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> We would like increase the security of each gadget by having each one in
> a
> >> different subdomain. This is, have each iframe in a different subdomain
> to
> >> use the cross-domain security of the browsers.
> >> We found that we can define the urls using our own container.js, but
> >> there's
> >> no way to assign a different subdomain for each gadget. So, is there a
> way
> >> to make that more dynamic, or to do something else to have a different
> >> subdomain for each gadget?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Gabriel
> >>
> >
>

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