[whatwg] Lifting cross-origin XMLHttpRequest restrictions?

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:45:26 +0100, Brett Zamir <brettz9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> As suggested above, could a header be required on compliant browsers to
> send a header along with their request indicating the originating
> server's domain?

No, existing servers would still be vulnerable.


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