Commit f8088bed by Tom Christie

Upgrade JSONP security warning.

parent b88e5378
......@@ -118,7 +118,13 @@ Renders the request data into `JSONP`. The `JSONP` media type provides a mechan
The javascript callback function must be set by the client including a `callback` URL query parameter. For example `http://example.com/api/users?callback=jsonpCallback`. If the callback function is not explicitly set by the client it will default to `'callback'`.
**Note**: If you require cross-domain AJAX requests, you may want to consider using the more modern approach of [CORS][cors] as an alternative to `JSONP`. See the [CORS documentation][cors-docs] for more details.
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**Warning**: If you require cross-domain AJAX requests, you should almost certainly be using the more modern approach of [CORS][cors] as an alternative to `JSONP`. See the [CORS documentation][cors-docs] for more details.
The `jsonp` approach is essentially a browser hack, and is [only appropriate for globally readable API endpoints][jsonp-security], where `GET` requests are unauthenticated and do not require any user permissions.
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**.media_type**: `application/javascript`
......@@ -419,6 +425,7 @@ Comma-separated values are a plain-text tabular data format, that can be easily
[rfc4627]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt
[cors]: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
[cors-docs]: ../topics/ajax-csrf-cors.md
[jsonp-security]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613962/is-jsonp-safe-to-use
[testing]: testing.md
[HATEOAS]: http://timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas
[quote]: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
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