[whatwg] Form-based HTTP Authentication Proof of Concept
Timothy D. Morgan
tmorgan at vsecurity.com
Thu Feb 25 08:00:37 PST 2010
Hello,
As a follow up to my paper advocating HTTP authentication over
cookies [1], I've built a simple sample application which demonstrates
how a combination of XMLHttpRequest and response code tricks can be
used to achieve form-based login, logout, and authenticated password
changes in the four most popular browsers:
http://www.vsecurity.com/download/tools/fbha-poc_0.1.zip
Note that this is achieved without using any checks to determine what
browser is being used.
While this is promising, I still think we should have an HTTP-based
log out mechanism. In addition, the proposed W3C change to
XMLHttpRequest authentication behavior will make this code much
simpler.
cheers,
tim
1. http://www.vsecurity.com/download/papers/WeaningTheWebOffOfSessionCookies.pdf
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