On Jun 24, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote:
Members of the Web Apps WG,
Below is an email from Henry Thompson (forwarded with his
permission), on behalf of the TAG [1], re the CORS spec [2].
Two things:
1. Please respond to at least this part of Henry's mail:
[[
It appeared to us that a number of significant criticisms of the
appropriateness of CORS have been submitted to the Working Group, from
respected members of the Web Security community among others. These
convinced us that there is a real possibility either that server-side
deployment won't happen, or that even if it did the new functionality
provided would, on the one hand, be insufficiently secure while, on
the
other, discouraging the provision of something more satisfactory.
]]
2. For those that have been active in defining the CORS model and/or
CORS implementers - particularly Adam, Anne, Jonas, Hixie, Maciej,
IE guys (whomever replaced Sunava) - please indicate:
a) their level of interest in continuing to push the current CORS
model;
Apple and the WebKit project would be reluctant to make major changes
to the model at this point unless its security was broken in ways that
could not reasonably be patched with minor changes.
b) their implementation plans for CORS.
We have shipped what I believe is an essentially complete
implementation of CORS as of Safari 4. I believe it is also present or
soon will be in other WebKt-based browsers, such as Google Chrome.
Regards,
Maciej
