Re: Mixed schemes

Personally -- SGTM (including #2).


> On 21 Nov. 2016, at 1:29 pm, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Patrick (perhaps indirectly) suggested that we can harness a Firefox bug here:
> 
>  https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/pull/270
> 
> That is, rather than mention that coalescing between https and http
> might happen, forbid it instead.
> 
> I'm fairly sure that this will address the concerns Erik had.  Maybe
> too effectively; objections like this would be good to hear.
> 
> I didn't add any text here about coalescing two http:// origins.  I
> don't want to close this issue until we resolve that too.  Should we:
> 
> 1. allow coalescing of two http:// origins by default
> 2. forbid coalescing of two http:// origins without an explicit signal
> 
> My preference is for option 2.
> 
> Let's be perfectly clear, there's no inherent protocol reason why we
> can't coalesce.  But this stems from an (over)abundance of caution.
> We can develop explicit opt-in signals regarding coalescing if it came
> to that ... #include <ORIGIN frame discussions>.
> 

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Received on Monday, 21 November 2016 03:14:32 UTC