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28th September 2007 - Link Blog

hasAccount. Stuart proposes a light-weight API for letting any site know if a user has an account (and is signed in) on another service. I wouldn’t want to deploy this without being confident that my CSRF protection was in order.

Posted 28th September 2007 at 9:10 am

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