Re: Well-known URI vs response headers? [ISSUE-81, ISSUE-47, ISSUE-80] from David Singer on 2011-10-28 (public-tracking@w3.org from October 2011)

From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:18:43 -0700
To: Tracking Protection Working Group WG <public-tracking@w3.org>
Message-id: <351C0CA4-E119-49BF-A3CF-CCA88E0FA360@apple.com>

I think it may be easier to write rules for caches, proxies etc.

For a start, if a request is satisfied by a cache, the origin server isn't even aware of a transaction, and can hardly track me at all.

Then, we can state that the DNT header response is not cacheable.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Friday, 28 October 2011 00:20:16 UTC