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diff --git a/guides/source/security.md b/guides/source/security.md index 0e4520843c..fb9ee7b412 100644 --- a/guides/source/security.md +++ b/guides/source/security.md @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ This attack method works by including malicious code or a link in a page that ac  -In the [session chapter](#sessions) you have learned that most Rails applications use cookie-based sessions. Either they store the session id in the cookie and have a server-side session hash, or the entire session hash is on the client-side. In either case the browser will automatically send along the cookie on every request to a domain, if it can find a cookie for that domain. The controversial point is, that it will also send the cookie, if the request comes from a site of a different domain. Let's start with an example: +In the [session chapter](#sessions) you have learned that most Rails applications use cookie-based sessions. Either they store the session id in the cookie and have a server-side session hash, or the entire session hash is on the client-side. In either case the browser will automatically send along the cookie on every request to a domain, if it can find a cookie for that domain. The controversial point is that if the request comes from a site of a different domain, it will also send the cookie. Let's start with an example: * Bob browses a message board and views a post from a hacker where there is a crafted HTML image element. The element references a command in Bob's project management application, rather than an image file: `<img src="http://www.webapp.com/project/1/destroy">` * Bob's session at `www.webapp.com` is still alive, because he didn't log out a few minutes ago. @@ -224,9 +224,9 @@ The HTTP protocol basically provides two main types of requests - GET and POST ( * The interaction _changes the state_ of the resource in a way that the user would perceive (e.g., a subscription to a service), or * The user is _held accountable for the results_ of the interaction. -If your web application is RESTful, you might be used to additional HTTP verbs, such as PATCH, PUT or DELETE. Most of today's web browsers, however do not support them - only GET and POST. Rails uses a hidden `_method` field to handle this barrier. +If your web application is RESTful, you might be used to additional HTTP verbs, such as PATCH, PUT or DELETE. Most of today's web browsers, however, do not support them - only GET and POST. Rails uses a hidden `_method` field to handle this barrier. -_POST requests can be sent automatically, too_. Here is an example for a link which displays `www.harmless.com` as destination in the browser's status bar. In fact it dynamically creates a new form that sends a POST request. +_POST requests can be sent automatically, too_. In this example, the link www.harmless.com is shown as the destination in the browser's status bar. But it has actually dynamically created a new form that sends a POST request. ```html <a href="http://www.harmless.com/" onclick=" @@ -1057,4 +1057,3 @@ The security landscape shifts and it is important to keep up to date, because mi * Subscribe to the Rails security [mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security) * [Keep up to date on the other application layers](http://secunia.com/) (they have a weekly newsletter, too) * A [good security blog](https://www.owasp.org) including the [Cross-Site scripting Cheat Sheet](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/DOM_based_XSS_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet) - |