- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:52:03 +0000
- To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <CABcZeBOf62xCfnrtoqXMzGTW=WLtXwbi0YgTPaFZ4kp+0-t8tg@mail.gmail.com>, Eric Rescorla wr ites: >It is quite common to have sensitive information in the path part of >URLs (for instance, Amazon item numbers appear here), and in >many cases, this is the only sensitive information required to >reconstruct the user's browsing history. I don't consider this to >be "very little actual privacy" loss. And nothing prevents these apps from demanding full privacy (ie: TLS). But with a view to the future, all they need to do is shift the sensitive part of the data to the :query side, and they'll fine. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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