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+1

They can use iFrames for simple display of content, but might require a
workaround if they want their javascript to access the content. A
workaround sounds like a necessary evil in that case.


Tyrell


Jonathan Marsh wrote:
| We’re getting an increasing number of questions about XSS, preventing
| people from using the mashup within a web page served from a different
| domain.
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| I’m quite tempted to complete my script-injection workaround, and make
| it available (at least as an alternate version).  I hope people don’t go
| into production with a solution that might be used to simplify XSS
| attacks, but XSS is really quite a pain during the development and
| testing phase.  In addition to using the alternative WSRequest.js
| version, I’ll require a script wrapper proxy (.jsp?) installed on the
| mashup server.
|
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| The alternative of writing proxies for the primary domain is safer but
| isn’t as appealing since we’d need to write one for Apache, for IIS, and
| who knows what else.
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|
| What do you think?  Will we be perceived as evil?
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| P.S. if I do succeed in this, it shows what a joke XSS is.
|
| P.P.S. still a chance I can fail, in which case the joke will be on me
;-).
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| *Jonathan Marsh* - http://www.wso2.com -
| http://auburnmarshes.spaces.live.com
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