- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:45:55 +0100
- To: Sergey Nikitin <nop@yandex-team.ru>
- CC: Michael Nordman <michaeln@google.com>, Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>, public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, chaals@myopera.com
On 2012-11-08 17:31, Sergey Nikitin wrote: > ... > Maybe you never visited the page or your cookies are expired (or you logged out). > > And visiting any page (with all cookies/other headers) is irreversible action. It affects statistics, it could do something without your knowledge (marking message as read in your webmail?). Yes I know about special header browser should send to a server, but I've never heard about any site supporting it. > ... Visiting a page should be a "safe" action; we shouldn't design extensions to address cases where people get this wrong. > Also generating a whole page just for metadata in it is a waste of server's CPU time. You don't need to generate the page (there's the HTTP HEAD method). Best regards, Julian
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