[uf-rest] Introducing JAHAH (regarding JSONP)

David Janes -- BlogMatrix davidjanes at blogmatrix.com
Thu Jan 5 11:44:44 PST 2006


Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Justin Maxwell wrote:
>> This is an interesting approach.  However, I can't even consider using 
>> it.  How can exploiting browser flaws to bypass necessary security 
>> measures provide a permanent, dependable solution to anything?
> 
> Yeah, someone else sent me the same concern privately.  I didn't realize 
> that JSON was designed for 'eval' parsing, which is a bit scary.  That's 
> one reason why I really as much behavior as possible to be declarative 
> rather than procedural.

As I said, JSON is out there now and coming into widespread deployment, 
it's not something that me and a couple of guys down at the pub invented 
last weekend :-).

Here's another example [1].

Regards, etc...
David

[1] http://developer.yahoo.net/common/json.html



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