Re: remove SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER setting?

2021-04-05 Thread 'Adam Johnson' via Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)
I agree. The time has come to remove it as it offers little protection, and it's easy to add back if you have the requirement. Two more data points: securityheaders.com no longer gives you points for setting the header, and caniuse.com data ( https://caniuse.com/mdn-http_headers_x-xss-protection

remove SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER setting?

2021-04-05 Thread Tim Graham
Hi, I think this setting and its functionality could be removed without a deprecation. Django's docs says, "Modern browsers don’t honor X-XSS-Protection HTTP header anymore. Although the setting offers little practical benefit, you may still want to set the header if you support older