Re: [WARP] it's just too strict...

On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:40:33 +0200, Marcos Caceres  
<marcosscaceres@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to again voice my concerns about WARP's strictness; The
> following requirement has to be relaxed in the future (v2?):
>
> ""
> If origin is not a valid IRI, if it has components other than scheme
> and iauthority, if it has no host component, or if it has a iuser info
> component, then this element is in error and the user agent MUST
> ignore this element.
> ""
>
> The offending part is "if it has components other than scheme and
> iauthority". This means that the following URLs are out:
>
> http://foo.com/
> http://foo.com?
> http://foo.com#
>
> I think this needs to be changed to just extract the "origin" the
> developer is trying to access. We should be more liberal and forgiving
> in what we accept in WARP.

Agree.

cheers

> As I have already pointed out in other
> emails, Opera already had to relax conformance to the above
> requirement because it was causing issues for developers. I don't
> doubt that this will cause more problems in the future.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marcos
>


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