- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:44:31 -0500
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
SHOULD affects conformance. At most, I think we'd add something to the security considerations saying that proxies "ought to" or "are encouraged to." Cheers, On 25/12/2011, at 3:04 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 08:52:35AM -0500, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> Hi Willy, >> >> This is certainly desirable, but just making it a requirement would make pretty much every proxy non-conformant, so that's a big step. >> >> Would it be sufficient to just encourage use / support of HTTPS with proxies? > > I think that's what a SHOULD is made for. Do you think SHOULD would be > too strong here ? > > Best regards, > Willy > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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