- From: dolphinling <dolphinling@myrealbox.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:44:52 -0400
http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#ping | User agents should allow the user to disable this behaviour, for | example controlled by a setting that also disables the sending of HTTP | Referrer headers. If the behaviour has been disabled, UAs may either | ignore the ping attribute altogether, or selectively ignore URIs in | the list based on the user's preference (e.g. ignoring any third-party | URIs). This sounds slightly wrong to me. "If it's disabled, UAs may choose to in fact only disable part of it." | For URIs that are HTTP URIs, the requests must be performed using the | POST method. User agents must ignore the entity body returned, but | must honour the HTTP headers ? in particular, HTTP cookie headers. Should be changed to "must ignore any entity bodies returned", to deal with redirects. What happens if I do ping="ftp://ftp.example.org/file"? Would the UA download that file? Perhaps something like: | Authors should use only HTTP URIs. User agents may ignore any non-HTTP | URIs. is in order? | When the ping attribute is present, user agents should clearly | indicate to the user that following the hyperlink will also cause | secondary requests to be sent in the background, possibly including | listing the actual target URIs. Is this necessary? I would leave it entirely up to the UAs rather than saying they SHOULD do it. | Note: ... but authors are urged to use the ping attribute so that the | user agent can . Perhaps this sentence should be ended? :) -- dolphinling <http://dolphinling.net/>
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