Re: A technique to mitigate cookie-stealing XSS attacks

[Florian Weimer <Weimer () CERT Uni-Stuttgart DE>]

"Michael Howard" <mikehow () microsoft com> writes:

> In a nutshell, if Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 detects a cookie that has a
> trailing HttpOnly (case insensitive) it will return an empty string to
> the browser when accessed from script, such as by using document.cookie.

What about HTTP headers which advise user agents to disable some
features, e.g. read/write access to the document or parts of it via
scripting or other Internet Explorer interfaces?

Is anybody interested in writing an Informational RFC on this topic?

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Florian Weimer                    Weimer () CERT Uni-Stuttgart DE
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