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Spring Security - Third Edition
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Spring Security - Third Edition

by Mick Knutson, Robert Winch, Peter Mularien
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
14h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Content-Type Options

Historically, browsers, including Internet Explorer, would try to guess the content type of a request using content sniffing. This allowed browsers to improve the user experience by guessing the content type of resources that had not specified the content type. For example, if a browser encountered a JavaScript file that did not have the content type specified, it would be able to guess the content type and then execute it.

There are many additional things one should do, such as only displaying the document in a distinct domain, ensuring the Content-Type header is set, sanitizing the document, and so on, when allowing content to be uploaded. However, these measures are out of the scope of what Spring Security provides. ...
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