Keep-web flow » History » Revision 2
Revision 1 (Peter Amstutz, 12/17/2015 08:13 PM) → Revision 2/4 (Peter Amstutz, 12/17/2015 09:22 PM)
h1. Keep-web flow Keep-web serves files from Keep collections as normal HTTP documents. Considerations: We are serving arbitrary files, which can include HTML files with Javascript. We don't want serve these files as regular documents from Workbench, because this would expose a cross-site-scripting (XSS) attack where the HTML page is loaded and executed with the credentials of the viewing user. This is mitigated two ways: # By serving files with "content-disposition: attachment" which tells the browser to open up the download dialog straight away and don't try to show the files. # Using separate a separate domain for downloading, so the browser won't send workbench cookies. This raises the challenge: how to provide the API token to keep-web to enable download? When user clicks on a workbench download link, they are redirected link...