Update 2016/02:  We were asked by a lot if this still works.  Shortly after our disclosure, this issue has been patched.   ------     The Background - The Past   Gaining access to  HttpOnly cookie  was first attempted by means of XST,  Cross Site Tracing  vulnerability.   Soon after the popularity of XST, the TRACE method has been disabled by most web servers.  Later, browsers' implementation of XMLHttpRequest also blocked "TRACE" method (i.e.  xmlhttp.open('TRACE', url, true) ].  Later,  a flawed implementation in Firefox's  XMLHttpRequest  which can be used to access set-cookie response header was fixed.         JS Debugger pointing out "TRACE" method as invalid arugment         JS Debugger pointing out "TRACE" method as illegal value   A Sla.ckers.org forum member, LeverOne, posted ways to access HttpOnly cookie through the use of Java API and applet.  I reproduced his techniques. When the first method was tried, the J...
 
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