{"id":5860,"date":"2012-08-30T16:44:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T21:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5860"},"modified":"2012-08-30T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T21:44:44","slug":"content-hosting-for-the-modern-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5860","title":{"rendered":"Content hosting for the modern web"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In our applications, we take a risk-based approach. Generally speaking, we tend to use three strategies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In higher risk situations (e.g. documents with elevated risk of URL disclosure), we may couple the URL token scheme with short-lived, document-specific cookies issued for specific subdomains of <em>googleusercontent.com<\/em>. This mechanism, known within Google as <em>FileComp<\/em>, relies on a range of attack mitigation strategies that are too disruptive for Google applications at large, but work well in this highly constrained use case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In cases where the risk of leaks is limited but responsive access controls are preferable (e.g., embedded images), we may issue URLs bound to a specific user, or ones that expire quickly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In low-risk scenarios, where usability requirements necessitate a more balanced approach, we may opt for globally valid, longer-lived URLs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/content-hosting-for-modern-web.html\">Google Online Security Blog: Content hosting for the modern web<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our applications, we take a risk-based approach. Generally speaking, we tend to use three strategies: In higher risk situations (e.g. documents with elevated risk of URL disclosure), we may couple the URL token scheme with short-lived, document-specific cookies issued &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5860\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[788,558,188,655],"class_list":["post-5860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-issues","tag-cookies","tag-html","tag-privacy","tag-web-browsers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}