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Re: Security: Cookies

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Al Gilman)
Sat Apr 29 10:30:30 2000

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To: Andrew Daviel <andrew@daviel.org>, www-talk@w3.org
From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
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How do your proposals compare as to information model with the work of

Open GIS Consortium 

http://www.opengis.org/

Al

At 06:33 PM 2000-04-28 -0700, Andrew Daviel wrote:
>
>An advisory recently about a cookie security problem :
>
>http://www.peacefire.org/security/jscookies/
>
>A site can set a cookie which contains a script, then
>open a frame on your cookie file thus executing the script with
>the domain of your PC, able to parse HTML files and directories
>on your PC.
>
>Cookies were also mentioned in the "cross platform scripting
>advisory" - which is really about web forums, chat rooms and
>query scripts being able to attack other HTML forms on the same
>server.
>
>
>Andrew Daviel      
>http://vancouver-webpages.com/andrew
>Deniable unless digitally signed.
> 


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