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Fixed #22504 -- Corrected domain terminology in security guide.

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Thanks chris at chrullrich.net.
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Tim Graham 2014-04-25 10:27:13 -04:00
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@ -237,11 +237,11 @@ User-uploaded content
you can take to mitigate these attacks:
1. One class of attacks can be prevented by always serving user uploaded
content from a distinct Top Level Domain (TLD). This prevents any
exploit blocked by `same-origin policy`_ protections such as cross site
scripting. For example, if your site runs on ``example.com``, you would
want to serve uploaded content (the :setting:`MEDIA_URL` setting) from
something like ``usercontent-example.com``. It's *not* sufficient to
content from a distinct top-level or second-level domain. This prevents
any exploit blocked by `same-origin policy`_ protections such as cross
site scripting. For example, if your site runs on ``example.com``, you
would want to serve uploaded content (the :setting:`MEDIA_URL` setting)
from something like ``usercontent-example.com``. It's *not* sufficient to
serve content from a subdomain like ``usercontent.example.com``.
2. Beyond this, applications may choose to define a whitelist of allowable