On 2013-03-11 4:32 PM, "Tyler Romeo" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Honestly, the solution could be as simple as requiring that the HTTP
> response have a certain header or something.
>
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Ok. I withdraw my security related objections :). Some sort of header based
checking to make sure the posts are wanted sounds sane (provided that very
initially a get request is used to verify this. Post requests to arbitrary
unverified urls can be dangerous.).

-bawolff
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