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HTTP Response Splitting

Is this apart of a HTTP Response Splitting attack ? Here below is some code that gets put into a web browser after clearing the url while on the website javascript: var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); ...
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What is the point of the same-domain rule for xmlhttprequest when script tags/JSONP can cross domains?

I get that I don't want a page loaded from stackoverflow.com to be able to request gmail.com on my behalf and read my email--but this seems to be simply a cookie issue. Since JSONP bypasses ...
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Should I include a random padding in every HTTPS request and response?

According to the following paper, it is possible to decrypt HTTPS traffic by inspecting AJAX calls and using the size parameter as a cryptographic oracle. Should I be sending a variable length ...