Would a solution be to prevent rails apps from serving "non static" JS from
GET requests. Assets served from the asset pipeline would be allowed. JS
returned via controllers/views would need explicitly defined permission to
be served via a GET request.


On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Greg Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rails should move on, to API-like servers and single page apps, not
>> necessarily breaking old school tools, but such a dinosaur should be
>> considered as a bad & insecure practise. Why patch it then at all?
>
> Single page apps are not everyone's cup of tea. Maybe I am old school but
> I like to keep on the server side everything I can because I have more
> control there.
>
> On Sunday, December 1, 2013 5:27:21 AM UTC+1, Egor Homakov wrote:
>>
>> This might work out, but damnit, isn't everyone agreed here that
>> "returning JS" is 2008 style?
>>
>>  Rails should move on, to API-like servers and single page apps, not
>> necessarily breaking old school tools, but such a dinosaur should be
>> considered as a bad & insecure practise. Why patch it then at all?
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, December 1, 2013 2:19:09 AM UTC+7, Brian D. Armstrong wrote:
>>>
>>> What about prefixing while(1) on the beginning of js responses with rack
>>> middleware, and then stripping them out client side?
>>>
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2669690/why-does-
>>> google-prepend-while1-to-their-json-responses
>>>
>>> This is the solution used by Facebook and Google.
>>>
>>> http://blag.7tonlnu.pl/blog/2012/09/27/json-hijacking-in-rails/
>>>
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