Re: ACTION-902 (Reprise) Summarise and prepare proposed resolutions on HTTPS link rewriting. from Luca Passani on 2009-03-20 (public-bpwg@w3.org from March 2009)

From: Luca Passani <passani@eunet.no>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:23:48 +0100
To: Public MWBP <public-bpwg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <49C35294.8070003@eunet.no>

Sean Patterson ha scritto:
>
> 2) PROPOSED RESOLUTION: In-network proxies MUST NOT rewrite links
> without explicit prior agreement from the Content Provider
>
> -1.  It's not practical to get explicit permission from content
> providers to do transformations.  It is too much effort and doesn't
> scale.

It is not practical to ask for permission to enter someone's house. It's 
too much effort. Breaking into it, though, is easier and "scales".

Luca

Received on Friday, 20 March 2009 08:24:23 UTC