Re: [xwiki-devs] [proposal] Enable CSRF protection by default during the testing phase of 3.2

Hello devs, I'd like to enable CSRF protection by default at least until 3.2-RC1 for testing purposes. The CSRF protection mechanism as been added in 2.5, but is still disabled by default, because many functional tests used to fail with CSRF protection (false positives). I have fixed the tests to work with CSRF protection, so we can try to enable it and test on a larger scale, maybe even on myxwiki.org (with RC1). If no critical bugs will be found during the testing, I'll call a vote to let it enabled in 3.2 final. Implementation note: Enabled CSRF protection puts some restrictions on possible requests that should be respected by the tests. For example, it is not possible to construct a request that logs-in as admin and deletes a page using xredirect, something that is used in UI tests for speedup. We might want to refactor the test utils a bit to discourage doing such things.

Commits: * Branch enabling the protection by default https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/enabled-csrf-protection * Branch with fixes for functional tests https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/tree/enabled-csrf-protection Bugs: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-6773 http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-5465 Here is my +1 WDYT?