JSON-RPC GET User.login security

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Wed Nov 10 16:59:44 UTC 2010


On 10/11/10 00:16, Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:
> 	Hey there. Right now, we deny calling the "User.login" method when
> using the GET method for JSON-RPC calls. Is there actually any good
> security-based reason to do so?

Assuming User.login requires an explicitly-specified username and 
password, I can't see any cross-site issues. And the issues with 
usernames and passwords in logs is typical of all JSONP. So no, I can't 
immediately see a problem.

Gerv
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