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Be skeptical of client-reported MIME Content-Types

Over the 14 years that I’ve been working on browsers and the web platform, I’ve seen a lot of bugs where the client’s configuration causes a problem with a website. By default, Windows maintains File Extension to Content Type and Content Type to File Extension mappings mappings in the registry. You can find the former mappings inContinue reading “Be skeptical of client-reported MIME Content-Types”

Edge EV UI Requires SmartScreen

A user recently noticed that when loading Paypal.com in Microsoft Edge, the UI shown was the default HTTPS UI (a gray lock): Instead of the fancier “green” UI shown for servers that present Extended Validation (EV) certificates: The user observed this on some Windows 10 machines but not others. The variable that differed between those machines wasContinue reading “Edge EV UI Requires SmartScreen”

Back Home

I rejoined Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager for the web networking team on June 4th, 2018. I’m delighted to be back working with lots of old friends from my Internet Explorer days, as well as lots of new folks who’ve joined while I’ve been pursuing other adventures.

Stop Spilling the Beans

I’ve written about Same Origin Policy a bunch over the years, with a blog series mapping it to the Read/Write/Execute mental model. More recently, I wrote about why Content-Type headers matter for same-origin-policy enforcement. I’ve just read a great paper on cross-origin infoleaks and current/future mitigations. If you’re interested in browser security, it’s definitely worth a read.

Building your .APP website with NameCheap and GitHub Pages–A Visual Guide

I recently bought a few new domain names under the brand new .app top-level-domain (TLD). The .app TLD is awesome because it’s on the HSTSPreload list, meaning that browsers will automatically use only HTTPS for every request on every domain under .app, keeping connections secure and improving performance. I’m not doing anything terribly exciting withContinue reading “Building your .APP website with NameCheap and GitHub Pages–A Visual Guide”