[whatwg] CORS requests for image and video elements

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Sat, 21 May 2011 04:48:15 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
> When we designed CORS we very intentionally did not want to allow
> "allow *" rules for resources that are loaded with user credentials
> (most significantly cookies). The reason was that we did not want
> people to repeat the mistakes that happened when flash's cross-site
> loading technology was deployed. Many sites added a "allow *" rule to
> all their resources, thus accidentally leaking all user data to any
> site that the user visited.

That is not actually true as that would require a second header,  
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials. I think we should stop banning "*".


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Anne van Kesteren
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