Re: Proposal: HTML tag to disable active content

2002-10-22 Thread Mitchell Stoltz
Interesting idea. We'd have to think about whether there would be any way for the malicious cross-site scripter to get the value of the random key attribute. If they could do so, they could generate a valid closing tag and proceed with active content. It would be great to feellike there was

Proposal: HTML tag to disable active content

2002-10-18 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
From the perspective of a web application programmer and security consultant, I think it would be very useful to have HTML tags to mark HTML sections where active content should be disabled, possibly selected active content. Right now the HTML environment with respect to potentially dangerous

Re: Proposal: HTML tag to disable active content

2002-10-18 Thread Ben Bucksch
Lincoln Yeoh wrote: I have tried the www-html list, And have read your proposal there (about a year ago?). (But I don't remember the discussion exactly anymore.) and other places, nothing happened Maybe because there were valid concerns, maybe it's even just a bad idea? To be taken

Re: Proposal: HTML tag to disable active content

2002-10-18 Thread Ben Bucksch
Lincoln Yeoh wrote: But can you actually help? No, I have no time. e.g. Telling me I've got it wrong and so I can forget the whole thing or fix it (slightly broken), or I've got it right and you can actually help take the idea further, or you know someone who can? The idea doesn't look