a cross site request forgery attack causes a visitor of a malicious website to send a request to a legit website to which he is already logged in including the session cookie.

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Do websocket-powered web apps (e.g. “comet” apps) have to worry about CSRF?

The standard advice for HTTP applications wanting to prevent Cross Site Request Forgery is to include a random token on each state-changing request (usually POST) which is verified by the server ...