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Jonathan Boudreau • • Edited

I consider CSP to be an advanced topic because it is a additional defence against XSS. I do not consider it a "must know". What I consider essential knowledge is how to reason about trusted and untrusted inputs, making sure to sanitize if your framework or library doesn't already do it.

Also, you can always set the CSP as report-only

Again, I don't consider this a "must know". I mean, its cool and all but I don't consider auditing something everyone should know about. I'd much rather have people know about ways you can actually completely shoot yourself in the foot than know about CSP.

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Aurelio •

Surely, although for me they really are different methods solving different but equally serious problems. But this is now more a personal opinion about what is and what is not a must know, so less valuable/interesting.

Thanks for keeping up the thread and replying with an informed opinion and a link to a reputable site.
I really appreciate it 👍👍👍

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