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Re: [hybi] About authentication mechanism

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Tue, 28 June 2011 22:19 UTC

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2011/6/28 John Tamplin <jat@google.com>om>:
> Note that cookies are problematic for supporting multiple tabs logged in
> with different accounts, and are vulnerable to XSRF attacks without
> additional precautions.

But still Cookies are the only authentication mechanism mentioned in
the WS draft.



> The point is common practice in web apps is not to use HTTP authentication
> anyway (aside from not being able to style it the way you want, you can't
> easily log out, plus other limitations),

I agree. It's ugly.


> but to have the app request the
> credentials and send them to the server itself.  If it takes that approach,
> then it can easily do the same thing for WS communication.

Humm, in my previous mail I already explained that a web server
returns an HTML page in which the user can fill his credentials and
so. But in WebSocket, how to do that? when you connect to a WebSocket
server you don't receive a custom HTML or a form to login.



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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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