[whatwg] a rel=attachment

Bjartur Thorlacius svartman95 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 12:41:08 PDT 2011


Þann fös 15.júl 2011 18:39, skrifaði Jonas Sicking:
> 2011/7/14 Ian Fette (イアンフェッティ)<ifette at google.com>:
> One concern which was brought up was the ability to cause the user to
> download a file from a third party site. I.e. this would allow
> evil.com to trick the user into downloading an email from the users
> webmail, or download a page from their bank which contains all their
> banking information. It might be easier to then trick the user into
> re-uploading the saved file to evil.com since from a user's
> perspective, it looked like the file came from evil.com
> 
Would it not be possible to send an unauthenticated request for the
file, if it's of different origin?


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