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CSRF protection with CORS Origin header vs. CSRF token

This question is about protecting against Cross Site Request Forgery attacks only. It is specifically about: Is protection via the Origin header (CORS) as good as the protection via a CSRF token? Example: Alice is logged in (using a cookie) with her browser to https://example.com. I assume, that she uses a mo…

scrollIntoView Scrolls just too far

I have a page where a scroll bar containing table rows with divs in them is dynamically generated from the database. Each table row acts like a link, sort of like you’d see on a YouTube playlist next to the video player. When a user visits the page, the option they are on is supposed to go to the top

Uploading a file via Yammer API

I’m able to post a message but when I add either the attachment or pending_attachment, I get an error saying: TypeError: ‘stepUp’ called on an object that does not implement interface HTMLInputElement. Answer yammer’s javascript SDK doesn’t work with attachment. (at least no work…

How to display   or any raw html in angular data?

How can I display   as space not as string. Is there raw filter like in twig? But the result is escaped  . I need this because ‘ ‘ have height of 0. Answer It can be easily done by using ngBindHtml For Angular above 1.2.x version: use ng-bind-html Working Demo html script For…

Binding .click and .blur event handlers

I’m running into a problem binding both a .blur and .click event handler to the same clickable element. The UX I’m going for is as follows: a user clicks on the search icon and the search field appears; when a user clicks again on the search icon, they can collapse and hide the search field. If th…

Bootstrap3 toggle switch with ajax update to mysql

Hello and thank you for looking. I have the slick new toggle effect for the checkbox (boostrap3) in place. I would like to update my database each time the toggle is clicked. A simple On or OFF entry will be perfect. Ofcourse it needs to be without a page refresh. HTML: Javascript/Ajax: (I added a div to show…

Disable context menu on video element

The intent of the code below is to disable the right click of the mouse button and the context menu on a video container element (customer request). However, it also seems to knock out the left button click which we need in order to start the video. How can I code this so that only the right click is disabled…

How can I split a string containing emoji into an array?

I want to take a string of emoji and do something with the individual characters. In JavaScript “😴😄😃⛔🎠🚓🚇”.length == 13 because “⛔” length is 1, the rest are 2. So we can’t do Answer The Grapheme Splitter library by Orlin Georgiev is pretty amazing. Although it hasn’t been u…