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I don’t have a Time Machine or a 1998-era browser but I’m not sure what you described was the case. I think in the before times, a browser could send a request
by PantaloonFlames 2y ago
I don’t have a Time Machine or a 1998-era browser but I’m not sure what you described was the case. I think in the before times, a browser could send a request to any arbitrary endpoint that was not the page origin, and it could also see the response. I might be wrong.
But anyway, ancient history.
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- fweimer 2y agoWikipedia references this part of the Netscape Navigator documentation: https://web.archive.org/web/20020808153106/http://wp.netscape.com:80/eng/mozilla/3.0/handbook/javascript/advtopic.htm#1009533 https://web.archive.org/web/20020808153106/http://wp.netscap... This suggests that the same-origin policy was introduced rather quickly after the introduction of Javascript, as a security fix.