CSP and SRI Together: Practical Reference and Examples

Content Security Policy and Subresource Integrity solve different problems, and they work best when you treat them as a pair. CSP answers: what sources am I willing to trust? SRI answers: is this exact file the one I meant to load? That distinction matters. I still see teams deploy one and assume they’re covered. They’re not. If you load a third-party script from an allowed domain in CSP, CSP is happy. But if that third-party file changes unexpectedly, CSP won’t help. SRI will. ...

April 1, 2026 · 6 min · headertest.com