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Out of curiosity, why do they call destination server an "origin"?

• jmull 5y ago
  As far as I can tell, the article is just choosing to use that term. There’s an origin concept in HTTP/browser security (see link), but the “origin” here appears to be different. It seems potentially confusing, so maybe they could simply use the term “server” instead of “origin server”. That fits in well with “client” and “proxy”. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6454 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6454