Re: Confused by DAA's messages. Please explain

On Jul 8, 2013, at 2:36 , "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:

> On Jul 6, 2013, at 5:29 PM, David Singer wrote:
>> On Jul 6, 2013, at 10:20 , Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I can't speak to the DAA proposal (having not even read it yet while on vacation), but I can say that I will continue disregarding semantically invalid HTTP signals no matter what anyone else's opinion might be. 
>> 
>> syntactically invalid I understand.  
>> 
>> what do you mean by 'semantically invalid'?  contradictory?  or you believe I don't mean what I am saying?  or something else?
> 
> DNT:1 has a defined semantic.  If it is sent by a client when that
> semantic is not true, then it is an invalid use of HTTP.

And which semantics can be ascertained to be true or not, remotely?  I am genuinely curious.

> 
> ....Roy
> 

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 8 July 2013 17:11:03 UTC