I guess add an attribute?  Stylistically, our attributes are normally all lower 
case, so maybe

<attribute name="credentialled" type="boolean" />

Datasets are special forms, so to implement this new attribute, you'd have to 
muck with the dataset compiler.

On 2011-04-28, at 12:15, Raju Bitter wrote:

> But do you have any comment on how to add the "withCredentials"
> setting to datasets?
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Raju Bitter
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The scenario I have is: I'm developing an OpenLaszlo app on
>> localhost:8080. I'm logging into the app, but the web service I'm
>> using is running on remote server connected to the Internet. When the
>> correct login credentials are sent to that server, the server response
>> will contain a set-cookie header. Any following request to the remote
>> server relies on the presence of that cookie value - or I'll get a 401
>> not authorized response.
>> 
>> The scenario you are describing with Paypal is based on iFrame
>> behavior: When you load content in an iFrame, Safari will not accept
>> any cookies from the webserver serving the iFrame HTML content until
>> the user interacts with that frame (clicks into that frame).
>> 
>> For the CORS scenario I have, check this example: Click on the button
>> to set a cookie in your browser following an XHR request to aruner.net
>> from arunranga.com. That works in Firefox and Chrome, but not in
>> Safari with the default settings
>> http://arunranga.com/examples/access-control/credentialedRequest.html
>> HTTP headers exchanged:
>> http://arunranga.com/examples/access-control/SimpleXSInvocation.txt
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:16 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> If I am reading this right, Safari's policy is to not _accept_ cookies from 
>>> a domain other than the one you are visiting.  In the case of a 
>>> credentialed request, the request is _sending_ a cookie to the foreign 
>>> domain, which is not going to be affected by Safari's default policy[*].  
>>> When you make the XHR request and set 'withCredentials' any cookies the 
>>> browser has for that domain will be sent with the request.  If the foreign 
>>> server accepts the request (and cookies) from your domain, it responds with 
>>> Allow-Origin and Allow-Credentials set appropriately and you get the data.
>>> 
>>> I think the scenario here is that you have previously logged in directly to 
>>> the foreign site and this variation on the XHR request is allowing your 
>>> (cross-origin) app to make requests including those credentials, while 
>>> still letting the foreign server decide what (other) sites it will permit 
>>> access for.
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> [*] The purpose of Safari's default policy is to limit tracking by not 
>>> _accepting_ 3rd-party cookies from embedded ads.  But as you can see if you 
>>> go to a site that accepts paypal, it still _sends_ 3rd-party cookies that 
>>> it may have acquired with a direct connection, which is how the embedded 
>>> paypal button knows who you are.
>>> 
>>> On 2011-04-28, at 07:12, Raju Bitter wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I would say that most scenarios where CORS is really useful are
>>>> 1) Accessing data on remote sites through XHR for mashups.
>>>> 2) Localhost / server backend test scenarios: Running a local
>>>> installation of OpenLaszlo for development, and accessing resources on
>>>> a remote server backend.
>>>> 
>>>> For 2), the Safari cookie settings can be changed by the developer,
>>>> for 1) that would only be necessary when you have a cross-domain
>>>> request with credentials.
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Raju Bitter
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> That's a browser setting: Safari -> Preferences -> Security
>>>>> http://grack.com/blog/2010/01/06/3rd-party-cookies-dom-storage-and-privacy/
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Henry Minsky <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> One problem is, that
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Safari's default cookie settings are set to "Accept cookies: Only from
>>>>>>> sites I visit". That means, even with CORS/withCredentials support,
>>>>>>> without the user chaning the accept cookies settings to "always", the
>>>>>>> browser will not accept cookies for CORS requests.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Is there any way to set that automatically from the LFC , or is that
>>>>>> something the user
>>>>>> has to manually change in their browser settings?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Henry Minsky
>>>>>> Software Architect
>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 


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