On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:42:42AM +0200, Koen Deforche wrote:
> CSRF = Cross Site Request Forgery; that's already an attack.

Thanks Koen!  My terminology was a bit sloppy.


> That's close. It's even the case that Wt will ignore the session ID
> (or refuse the request, I forget now what we actually do) if you would
> put it in a URL for a page refresh. This is a second defense in Wt to
> make a stolen session ID even useless. Again this all under the
> assumption of an Ajax session.

That's an interesting feature.  I was not aware of that.  It would
certainly add a kink into any BREACH attack attempt. :-)

Thanks again!
- Chris


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