RFC 6454 on The Web Origin Concept

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        RFC 6454

        Title:      The Web Origin Concept 
        Author:     A. Barth
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       December 2011
        Mailbox:    ietf@adambarth.com
        Pages:      20
        Characters: 41363
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-websec-origin-06.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6454.txt

This document defines the concept of an "origin", which is often used
as the scope of authority or privilege by user agents.  Typically,
user agents isolate content retrieved from different origins to
prevent malicious web site operators from interfering with the
operation of benign web sites.  In addition to outlining the
principles that underlie the concept of origin, this document details
how to determine the origin of a URI and how to serialize an origin
into a string.  It also defines an HTTP header field, named "Origin",
that indicates which origins are associated with an HTTP request.  
[STANDARDS-TRACK]

This document is a product of the Web Security Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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