Certificates for localhost

Re:Certificates for localhost by Ajedi32 on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:05PM (#17361773)

Not necessarily. It could be running in a sandbox, or as unprivileged user, and accessing your app's API over localhost would allow for privilege escalation.

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Re:Certificates for localhost by mholt on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:38AM (#17362414)

I see your point. But in my book, that's still rogue software. And that's a terrible sandbox. :)

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Re:Certificates for localhost by orf on Thursday June 21, 2018 @11:09AM (#17365828)

I see your point, but you're saying:

> Yeah, we don't trust just anything that comes in on that socket

Well, you are, you're trusting it came from a browser so the Origin header is correct, right?

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