>
> Maybe we should focus the module on this threat more specifically.  My
> understanding is that this is a big source of pain for folks who
> operate forums, especially for user-supplied images that point back to
> the forum itself.  What if the directive was something like
> "cookieless-images" and affected all images, regardless of where they
> were loaded from?
>

requiring it to implement this policy regardless of the running script
context would require the UA to maintain a cache of policies for each
site the user has visited. This is against the requirements of the
base module. And I for one am against any such type of caching
requirement in the UA.

cheers
devdatta

2009/10/22 Adam Barth <abarth-mozi...@adambarth.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Mike Ter Louw <mter...@uic.edu> wrote:
>> I agree.  It seems anti-csrf (as currently defined) would be most beneficial
>> for defending against CSRF attacks that don't require any user action beyond
>> simply viewing the page (e.g., <img src="attack">).
>
> Maybe we should focus the module on this threat more specifically.  My
> understanding is that this is a big source of pain for folks who
> operate forums, especially for user-supplied images that point back to
> the forum itself.  What if the directive was something like
> "cookieless-images" and affected all images, regardless of where they
> were loaded from?
>
> Adam
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