[Zope] Zope ZMI Templates

Tino Wildenhain tino at wildenhain.de
Thu Jan 17 03:01:32 EST 2008


Andreas Jung wrote:
...
> Iframes are still a valid choice in case asynchronous won't work e.g. 
> when you need to load resources from servers != your origin server. Due 
> the security model of asynchronous requests, a browser will only load 
> stuff from the origin server. Iframes are a way to work around this 
> limitation - ugly as you said, but sometimes a good workaround.

Not only ugly but also a very security threat. Been there, seen a lot
important sites fell on their noses when it comes to CSS* and friends.
Better find another solution in such cases and allow users to disable
support for iframes for better security.

*) here: cross site scripting

Regards
Tino


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