Microsoft Corporation
Securely sharing context between web frames

Abstract:

Sharing context between web frames increases consistent application of security policies, without requiring changes to a document object model. A proxy receives a first request implicating a first web frame and its URL, potentially issues a sub-request and gets a sub-response, and creates a first response to the first request, including a context in frame creation or frame navigation code. Thus, context such as a domain identification is made available for sharing between the first web frame and a second web frame without altering a document object model of a web page of the first web frame, and without imposing a same-origin policy workaround. Sharing the context allows the proxy to ascertain a policy based on the context, so it can apply the policy in reactions to subsequent requests. Context sharing allows window frames to be associated together in the proxy, and informs browser rendering.