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by krapp 4567 days ago
Is there a way to check that which can't be faked by altering the browser or a js framework though?

I was under the impression that trying to validate that was ultimately as fragile as checking the user-agent string...

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It relies on a header, which can't be set through the attack vector, so it's all kosher.
Since we are on the same page, could you help me in this discussion with nzkoz? https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/11509 we're talking about different things