[whatwg] Clickjacking and CSRF

Charles McCathieNevile chaals at opera.com
Thu Jul 16 04:33:42 PDT 2009


On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:48:41 +0200, Aryeh Gregor  
<Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Jonas Sicking<jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
>> Note that Content Security Policies[1] can be used to deal with
>> clickjacking. So far we've gotten a lot of positive feedback to CSP
>> and are in progress of implementing it in firefox. So it's a possible
>> solution to this.
>
> Is Mozilla planning to run CSP through a usual standards body like the
> W3C, either before or after implementation?  If you plan to
> standardize it after implementation, why not before instead?  CSP
> looks really exciting, but I'm not clear on whether or when it will be
> standardized -- I've heard talk of implementing it, but not of
> standardizing it.

Opera has been actively following up this problem with various browser  
vendors (in particular) in the hopes of at least getting us all together  
in a useful forum. If you're curious, Sigbjørn is our lead for this effort.

cheers

Chaals

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