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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md index f30fa26a..cf200569 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md @@ -118,7 +118,13 @@ Renders the request data into `JSONP`. The `JSONP` media type provides a mechan The javascript callback function must be set by the client including a `callback` URL query parameter. For example `http://example.com/api/users?callback=jsonpCallback`. If the callback function is not explicitly set by the client it will default to `'callback'`. -**Note**: If you require cross-domain AJAX requests, you may want to consider using the more modern approach of [CORS][cors] as an alternative to `JSONP`. See the [CORS documentation][cors-docs] for more details. +--- + +**Warning**: If you require cross-domain AJAX requests, you should almost certainly be using the more modern approach of [CORS][cors] as an alternative to `JSONP`. See the [CORS documentation][cors-docs] for more details. + +The `jsonp` approach is essentially a browser hack, and is [only appropriate for globally readable API endpoints][jsonp-security], where `GET` requests are unauthenticated and do not require any user permissions. + +--- **.media_type**: `application/javascript` @@ -419,6 +425,7 @@ Comma-separated values are a plain-text tabular data format, that can be easily [rfc4627]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt [cors]: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ [cors-docs]: ../topics/ajax-csrf-cors.md +[jsonp-security]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613962/is-jsonp-safe-to-use [testing]: testing.md [HATEOAS]: http://timelessrepo.com/haters-gonna-hateoas [quote]: http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven |