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Re: [http-state] Seeking feedback on Security Considerations

Achim Hoffmann <ah@securenet.de> Sun, 28 February 2010 12:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] Seeking feedback on Security Considerations
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>> Should the fact that clients also support cookies through HTML meta tags and
>> the Javascript document.cookie API be mentioned? The latter could be a
>> concern when including external Javascripts directly into a HTML document.
> 
> Hum...  Maybe we should add a new section about interactions with non-HTTP APIs?

It's partially coverd in the 7.5. Weak Confidentiality section.
I'm aware of at least following non-HTTP issues:
  * meta tag in the message body (HTML)
  * client API (in particular browser access to HTTP headers and DOM)
  * servers/framworks using URL rewriting (it's HTTP, but not the protocol itself)
  * server log files
  * permanent cookie store on the client

Achim

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