[whatwg] JSONRequest

[Hallvord R M Steen]

> > If you today embed data on an
> > intranet in JavaScript I can create a page that loads that script in a
> > SCRIPT tag and steal the data.
>
> Could you please describe how exactly?  the contents of remote script
> elements are not typically available (and if they are it's a large
> security hole today) unless valid javascript objects are produced to
> be queried, that is not the case with bare JSON.

You are right, if no variables are created one can't see the data by
loading it in a  SCRIPT tag. Are you aware of intranets/CMSes that use
this as a security mechanism?

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Hallvord R. M. Steen