Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] "With Credentials" flag possibly inconsistent with web architecture (#76)

> IIRC there was an issue with some browser on handling Vary in cache

Browser bugs are not a reason to introduce a new feature (and new bugs).

> The lack of libraries that do retry is a symptom that people are using the more dangerous option of echoing back the origin instead of relying on a library that would do retries for every network error.

Given that there's plenty of servers using `*` that seems false. (Note also that just echoing the origin is not insecure. It's only insecure if you also set the ACAC header.)

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