- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:46:57 +0200
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Roy Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
On 20.09.2010 10:27, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > ... > I'm not quite familiar with our code here, but if I understand the bug > report below most (if not all) browsers do not implement any of the > above. That does not seem good. Also, a SHOULD seems way too strong; > even if we would report HTTP errors in an error console in most cases > the user will not be informed at all. If I remember correctly, HTML5 > typically uses MAY for such cases and a MUST for conformance checkers. > ... "MAY" is useless here, of course UAs "MAY" inform the user about just anything. The reason why this is discussed at all (*) is that it's a *security* issue, and also recovery from this kind of problem isn't really possible. Best regards, Julian (*) as compared to a broken date, for instance.
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