On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Andy Schwartz <andy.schwartz(a)oracle.com> wrote:
Hey Kito -
On 10/26/10 2:01 PM, Kito Mann wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Blake Sullivan
> <blake.sullivan(a)oracle.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> This leaves the ever popular GETs. I'm probably being lazy, but at this
>> point I'm willing to punt on GETs because of potential problems with:
>>
>> 1) Worries about referer leakage if the secret is encoded in the URL
>> 2) How to deal with bookmarking
>> 3) General dislike for ugly URLs
>>
>> Admittedly, I think that 2) is the only one that really requires more
>> thought, since I think that the solution to 1) is to a) Only worry about
>> CSRF for pages served through a secure channel b) Require that pages
>> served
>> to authenticated users be served through a secure channel. For 3), I
>> think
>> it's gross but, that's just me :)
>>
>
> I think leaving out support for GETs is a bad idea.
I agree that we should support GETs. My concern isn't whether we should
support this - but whether the currently proposed approach of enabling this
on a global/application level is the right way to go. I think we need a
finer grained solution.
Perhaps I missed it earlier in the thread, but why? And what would you propose?
-- Kito