Re: CT Guidelines Version 1u

All right, let us nail down the decisions from the last 
teleconference. The text of CT 1u is:
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H.1.2 Use of HTTP 403 Status

Servers should consider using an HTTP 403 Status if 
concerned that the security of a link that it assumed to
be private has been compromised (for example as a
result of the presence of a Via HTTP header in an
HTTPS request).
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The sentence is to be grammatically (first part), formally (HTTP header field), and semantically (Via fields do not
cause security issues, they reveal them) corrected to:
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Servers should consider using an HTTP 403 Status if concerned that the security of a link assumed to be
private has been compromised (for example, the lack of
privacy may be inferred from the presence of a Via HTTP
header field in an HTTPS request).
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E.Casais


      

Received on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 14:38:08 UTC