- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 15:06:20 PST
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Cc: http-caching@pa.dec.com
> Shel adds:
> At the meeting we discussed whether we believed it would be
> reasonable or advisable to think about adding protocol elements to
> explicitly control history mechanisms, such as (for instance) a
> directive to prevent the entry of a document into a history
> buffer. Surprisingly (as I had thought the consensus was
> otherwise) people seemed to agree that it was reasonable to
> consider some options in this area. We didn't discuss it further.
I am surprised as well. When it was discussed on the WG, there was
near universal agreement that the server has no business messing with
the browser's history function. The only thing I would ever find
acceptable in that regard would be a "don't write this data to disk"
statement for secure applications, but the fact is that those
applications will already have a better mechanism for saying such a
thing as part of the security negotiation.
As it stands now, nothing is going to happen here unless someone
takes a lead. Shel, since you seem to think this is important,
I nominate you to put forward a specific written proposal, including
a concise rationale for why you think it is necessary.
-Jeff
Received on Tuesday, 20 February 1996 23:16:52 UTC