[Bug 8412] To prevent sites from loading gigabytes of data, shouldn't the user agent explicitly mention the size of the files in the manifest. (This would also require a check during the downloading process, as to whether the provided sizes are real)

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8412


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #1 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2010-01-05 12:00:12 ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: If the browser doesn't want to download gigabytes of data, it need
but stop downloading. Requiring that the author get the file sizes right in the
manifest is non-trivial, especially for dynamic resources. It's not really
clear what benefit this would bring.


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Received on Tuesday, 5 January 2010 12:00:14 UTC