Commit f65eb15a authored by Tim Graham's avatar Tim Graham
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Fixed #22504 -- Corrected domain terminology in security guide.

Thanks chris at chrullrich.net.
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@@ -237,11 +237,11 @@ User-uploaded content
  you can take to mitigate these attacks:

  1. One class of attacks can be prevented by always serving user uploaded
     content from a distinct Top Level Domain (TLD). This prevents any
     exploit blocked by `same-origin policy`_ protections such as cross site
     scripting. For example, if your site runs on ``example.com``, you would
     want to serve uploaded content (the :setting:`MEDIA_URL` setting) from
     something like ``usercontent-example.com``. It's *not* sufficient to
     content from a distinct top-level or second-level domain. This prevents
     any exploit blocked by `same-origin policy`_ protections such as cross
     site scripting. For example, if your site runs on ``example.com``, you
     would want to serve uploaded content (the :setting:`MEDIA_URL` setting)
     from something like ``usercontent-example.com``. It's *not* sufficient to
     serve content from a subdomain like ``usercontent.example.com``.

  2. Beyond this, applications may choose to define a whitelist of allowable