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From: Ryan McIntosh <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Cherokee] Server Info handler
To: leonel <[email protected]>


Hi Guys,

It's fine to use application/json for security reasons, AFAIK, but it
isn't as adopted as text/x-json.  Any security risk is still there,
AFAIK.

As for security.  Please don't write JSON servlets that release secure
info via GET.  People can fetch it via script tags.
http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2007/03/05/json_is_not_as_safe_as_people_think_it_is.html

Also, even if you're using POST for exchange of secure info via JSON,
please use some sort of short lifetime key exchange mechanism to
authenticate clients.

Ryan

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:21 PM, leonel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
>> On 25-ene-09, at 16:27, Oli Warner wrote:
>>
>>> To add to your list: text/x-json and application/jsonrequest
>>>
>>> I've no idea which is right (application/json *should* be but I've
>>> seen things saying not to use it for security reasons) but I've asked
>>> the smart folks at StackOverflow:
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/477816/the-right-json-content-type
>>
>> Good idea! Thanks for posting the question. :)
>>
>>> Hopefully somebody will have a definitive answer.
>>
>> So far, replies tell to use "application/json", that is exactly what
>> we're doing.
>>
>> Does someone else suffered the same problem?
>> It's works fine in FF, WebKit, Safari and Opera at my side.
>>
>>>  On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 16:06 +0100, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Open question: What's the right MIME type for that reply (a JSON web
>>>> service)? "application/x-javascript", "text/javascript", "application/
>>>> json"?
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Checking the config  I saw  a   /about  on the default virtual server
> and that  /about works fine
>
> If I setup  a new   lets say  /info  with  Server Info  Handler    the
> /about works  fine but with the /info  firefox does not know what to do
> then  I've tested the /info/  with  ie7 , firefox 3.0.5 and safari  on
> windows    and same results  as firefox on linux
>
>
> Saludos
>
>
> Leonel
>
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