RE: [xml-dev] What the .... ? Referencing XSL stylesheets across domains

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Ancona [mailto:scarhill@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:38 AM
> To: Dare Obasanjo; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] What the .... ? Referencing XSL 
> stylesheets across domains
> 

> 
> First of all, can anyone confirm that this restriction is in 
> fact intended to prevent some sort of attack? I think I'm the 
> person who originally suggested that might be the reason, but 
> I have no idea if that is in fact the case. 

I've talked to some of the people involved with XSLT who've dealt with
the IE folks who confirmed that it was a security issue. 


> Second, if script in stylesheets is the problem, then the 
> issue is with Microsoft's extensions to XSLT, not XSLT 
> itself. In that case, a better solution might be to disable 
> those scripting extensions in stylesheets from a foreign 
> domain, not refuse to load the stylesheet at all.

Security concerns about executing XML documents from domains other than
the requested domain go beyond executing script blocks. Some of which
Joshua pointed out. 

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