- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:00:59 +0200
- To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2014-07-15 15:42, Eric Rescorla wrote: > ... > > Mark can of course do as he likes with his document, but I would > not support adding this text to a WG document as I do not believe > that it is accurate. > > It is quite common to have sensitive information in the path part of > URLs (for instance, Amazon item numbers appear here), and in > many cases, this is the only sensitive information required to > reconstruct the user's browsing history. I don't consider this to > be "very little actual privacy" loss. > > -Ekr Agreed. We shouldn't rely on a perceived difference that neither is backed up by the specs, nor is there in practice. Best regards, Julian
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