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Bootstrapcdn recently changed their links. It now looks like this:
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha256-MfvZlkHCEqatNoGiOXveE8FIwMzZg4W85qfrfIFBfYc= sha512-dTfge/zgoMYpP7QbHy4gWMEGsbsdZeCXz7irItjcC3sPUFtf0kuFbDz/ixG7ArTxmDjLXDmezHubeNikyKGVyQ==" crossorigin="anonymous"> What do the integrity and crossorigin attributes mean? How do they affect the loading of the stylesheet?
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The integrity attribute allows a browser to check the fetched script to ensure that the code is never loaded if the source has been manipulated. Subresource Integrity (SRI) is a W3C specification that allows web developers to ensure that resources hosted on third-party servers have not been altered.
The crossorigin attribute sets the mode of the request to an HTTP CORS Request. Web pages often make requests to load resources on other servers. Here is where CORS comes in. A cross-origin request is a request for a resource (e.g. style sheets, iframes, images, fonts, or scripts) from another domain.
The integrity attribute is used to give permission to the Browser to check the fetched script to make ensure the source code is never loaded. It is used to check that whether the third party has been altered the resource or not.
Using Subresource Integrity You use the Subresource Integrity feature by specifying a base64-encoded cryptographic hash of a resource (file) you're telling the browser to fetch, in the value of the integrity attribute of any <script> or <link> element.
Both attributes have been added to Bootstrap CDN to implement Subresource Integrity.
Subresource Integrity defines a mechanism by which user agents may verify that a fetched resource has been delivered without unexpected manipulation Reference
Integrity attribute is to allow the browser to check the file source to ensure that the code is never loaded if the source has been manipulated.
Crossorigin attribute is present when a request is loaded using 'CORS' which is now a requirement of SRI checking when not loaded from the 'same-origin'. More info on crossorigin
More detail on Bootstrap CDNs implementation
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