For example, the Meerca Maid Tray is a foreground item, so the SWF is marked
as compatible with all body types, but the item itself is clearly marked as
Meercas-only. items#show reflected this properly, but the swf_assets#index
call that the wardrobe uses ignored item.species_support_ids.
So, /bodies/:body_id/swf_assets.json?item_ids[]=... was deprecated in favor
of /pet_types/:pet_type_id/items/swf_assets.json?item_ids=[]..., which is
much like the former route but, before loading assets, also loads the pet
type and items, then filters the items by compatibility, then only loads
assets for the compatible items.
This one was actually pretty darn clever - nobody's abused it, but
I was reading a blog post where someone described this type of
issue, I realized it was a brilliant attack, and then realized
DTI was vulnerable. Oops. Thanks for the solution, Jamie!
http://jamie-wong.com/2012/08/22/what-i-did-at-khan-academy/#XSS+Fix
Many forms on the site contain a hidden authenticity_token field,
unique to each visitory. If a user submits a request with an
invalid authenticity_token, Rails assumes that it's a CSRF attempt
and logs out the user. So, if we happen to cache those forms with
authenticity_token fields, all users who use that form will have
the same authenticity_token (valid for only the first user who
saw the form, invalid for everyone else), and all requests made
through that form will log out the user. Bad news.
So, we stopped caching those forms. Yay!
Use the ImageMagick flatten command to generate the output all at
once instead of compositing each layer individually, and download
the layers in parallel. On my box, saving roopal27 five times took
a total of 30 seconds before, whereas now it takes 7 seconds. I
expect it to be even better on the production box, where latency
is even lower.
