On Jan 29, 2008 12:03 PM, Brian Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hey folks -
>
> When initializing a gadget it seems like the best place to put the
> gadget token is in the URL fragment, i.e.
> http://somegadget.com/foo.xml#t=token.  What about when the token is
> returned to the gadget server for authenticated requests?  The


gadgets.io needs to start passing this. I also want to rename this "st"
(security token) to be slightly less vague.


> ProxyHandler code currently looks for the gadget token in the 't'
> request parameter, but I'd like to move it to an HTTP header.  URL
> parameters tend to leak via the referer header, so moving the gadget
> token out of the URL would be security win.


+1 on using a header rather than a url parameter.

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