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Web Application Security, A Beginner's Guide
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Web Application Security, A Beginner's Guide

by Bryan Sullivan, Vincent Liu
December 2011
Beginner
384 pages
9h 38m
English
McGraw-Hill
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Defining the Same-Origin Policy

The same-origin policy is essentially an agreement among browser manufacturers—mainly Microsoft, Apple, Google, Mozilla and Opera—on a standard way to limit the functionality of scripting code running in users’ web browsers. You might wonder why this is a good thing and why we would want any limits on scripting functionality. If so, don’t worry; we’ll go into this in detail in the next section. Until then, please trust us that without the same-origin policy, the World Wide Web would be more like a Wild West Web where anything would go, no data would be safe, and you’d never even think about using a credit card to buy something there.

In short, the same-origin policy states that when a user is viewing a web page ...

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