Thursday, October 8, 2015

Upgrade Insecure Requests; and Mixed Content are W3C Candidate Recommendations

The Web Application Security Working Group has published Candidate Recommendations for two documents that help Web authors and users toward secure, authenticated browsing:

  • Upgrade Insecure Requests defines a mechanism which allows authors to instruct a user agent to upgrade a priori insecure resource requests to secure transport before fetching them.
  • Mixed Content describes how a user agent should handle fetching of content over unencrypted or unauthenticated connections in the context of an encrypted and authenticated document.


by Maria Auday via W3C News

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