- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:16:04 +1100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Adam Barth <whatwg@adambarth.com>, WHAT Working Group <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Adam Barth wrote: > >> I don't see the connection with CORS. The browser is free to request >> whatever URLs it wants. The results need not be accessible to >> content. Maybe I'm misunderstanding. > > The proposal at the link was for a method to do URL unshortening as a > client-side script in the browser. That would indeed require CORS. A feature > built-in to the browser would not. Yes, there are different ways to solve this and we can go all the way to the browser, or leave it to a script. But to push it to a script (which I think is preferable), we need CORS. Cheers, Silvia.
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