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Re: [websec] Last Call: <draft-ietf-websec-origin-04.txt> (The Web Origin Concept) to Proposed Standard

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 02 September 2011 10:24 UTC

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On 2011-09-02 12:20, Adam Barth wrote:
> I replied to Julian's message on a W3C list.  Julian, is there more
> discussion you'd like to have about these points?
> ...

Well, as discussed, the syntax of the Origin header makes it hard to 
detect errors which happen when multiple instances get folded into one; 
see 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-latest.html#considerations.for.creating.header.fields> 
-- but I fear it's too late to fix this?

Best regards, Julian

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