Web Security Headers

A lot of modern web application security depends on HTTP headers. They enable you to restrict which kinds of content from which sources will be executed on your site. This can mitigate or even prevent a lot of popular client-side attacks, like Cross-Site-Scripting or downgrades to plaintext HTTP.

Default headers

To provide a basic level of security, we set the following HTTP headers on all uberspaces for every domain:

Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin

Prevents the browser from leaking GET parameters to linked sites via HTTPS or leaking the domain over unencrypted HTTP altogether.

Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000

Enforce that the site may only be loaded via HTTPS for the next (non-leap) year.

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

Prevent some browsers from interpreting JavaScript in non-js MIME types.

X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block

Tell the browser to protect against cross-site scripting.

X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

Prevents the site from being used as a frame from another domain, i.e. to block other sites from calling actions on your site (i.e. deleting a profile).

Note

Changing the above values is possible using web headers.