[Bug 12224] Drop rel=pingback. The Pingback spec seems dead and unused, and redundant with the Referer header.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12224

Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> 2011-03-02 21:42:33 UTC ---
Would that make <link rel=pingback> invalid? That would be unforunate, because
it's actually used by WordPress:

<link rel="pingback" href="http://blog.foolip.org/xmlrpc.php" />

I haven't looked into it, but I assume that when you publish a blog post,
WordPress fetches all linked pages and looks for <link rel=pingback> in order
to make that magic work.

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Received on Wednesday, 2 March 2011 21:42:36 UTC