Re: [cors] Protecting benign but buggy client side code

2010-08-27 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:59:09 +0200, Devdatta Akhawe dev.akh...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that over here facebook is a benign server that some time in the past assumed that XHR can only be same origin, and with the introduction of cross origin XHR is suddenly vulnerable to XSS. In general, a

[cors] Protecting benign but buggy client side code

2010-08-20 Thread Devdatta Akhawe
Hi The CORS specification in its current form seems to be very concerned about increasing attack surface of benign servers (the preflight request etc. concern). Seeing [1] I am concerned about the other case - benign clients and malicious cross origin servers. for the tl;dr crowd - my (possibly