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> Internally, we call the request’s destination server its “origin” Origin: The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is de
by cwilby 2y ago
> Internally, we call the request’s destination server its “origin”
Origin: The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.
How can the request's destination server be the origin, if it is the destination server?
- toast0 2y agoThe origin is the origin of the content.
- cwilby 2y agoThus cross origin resource sharing. Thanks! At least it's consistently inconsistent.
- tills13 2y agoOn the internet, the origin is the server sending the response to the user. I suppose you can look at it from the perspective of the owner of the server -- from their frame of reference, their journey _starts_ when they receive, process, and respond to the request. Granted, computer scientists are infamously known for being terrible at naming things.
- hinkley 2y agoHad any fun with “Referer” headers lately?
- fowl2 2y agoDepends on your perspective :) "Origin" is a term from web browsers, from their point of view it refers to where a web page came from. see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-origin_policy https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...
- taeric 2y agoThis hilariously reminds me of the complaining about X server semantics back in the day.