- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:01:24 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Julian Reschke wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > ... > > But I would add one more. Authors are stupid. We shouldn't provide them with > > features whose only possible use is for them to shoot themselves in the > > foot. In other words, I would phrase the question not as "which headers > > should we restrict", but "which headers should we allow", and only allow > > those that have valid use cases. > > ... > > How do you do that, when the set of headers with potential use cases is > open-ended? You allow any headers that we didn't consider. > For instance, would "Destination", "Apply-To-Redirect-Ref" or "If" > qualify? Sure, supporting WebDAV seems like a valid use case. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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