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14 lines
968 B
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Internet Explorer, restrict untrusted HTML
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[](https://travis-ci.org/helmetjs/ienoopen)
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This middleware sets the `X-Download-Options` header to `noopen` to prevent Internet Explorer users from executing downloads in your site's context.
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```javascript
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const ienoopen = require('ienoopen')
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app.use(ienoopen())
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```
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Some web applications will serve untrusted HTML for download. By default, some versions of IE will allow you to open those HTML files *in the context of your site*, which means that an untrusted HTML page could start doing bad things in the context of your pages. For more, see [this MSDN blog post](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/07/02/ie8-security-part-v-comprehensive-protection.aspx).
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This is pretty obscure, fixing a small bug on IE only. No real drawbacks other than performance/bandwidth of setting the headers, though.
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