- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 12:58:13 -0500
- To: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Foteos Macrides wrote: > >State Management: > >[...] > >Following the slide presentation, there was discussion on the privacy > >considerations in the draft. Ted Hardie: In Comment-URL, the URL could > >potentially be a non-HTTP URL, and this issue needs to be addressed. > > I am puzzled by this statement. In early drafts, there was > no restriction on the scheme for CommentURLs. For security reasons, > the Lynx field test implementation limited them to server-based > schemes (e.g., http(s), gopher, ftp, wais). Subsequent drafts > explicitly limited CommentURLs to http (and https by implication :) > and the implementation in the recent Lynx v2.7.2 release so restricts > them. Isn't this a closed issue? What Larry sent out were the minutes of the WG session. Ted raised an issue that we checked. In fact you are right: the protocol is explicitly "http" and the issue is closed. Dave Kristol
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