[whatwg] Lifting cross-origin XMLHttpRequest restrictions?

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:35:48 +0100, Brett Zamir <brettz9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My apologies if this has been covered before, or if my asking this is a  
> bit dense, but I don't understand why there are restrictions on  
> obtaining data via XMLHttpRequest from other domains, if the request  
> could be sandboxed to avoid passing along sensitive user data like  
> cookies (or if the user could be asked for permission, as when  
> installing browser extensions that offer similar privileges).

Did you see

   http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/
   http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/access-control/

?


> Servers are already free to obtain and mix in content from other sites,  
> so why can't client-side HTML JavaScript be similarly empowered?

Because you would also have access to e.g. IP-authenticated servers.


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Anne van Kesteren
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