- From: Brady Eidson <beidson@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:31:05 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@myopera.com>, public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2012-10-30 10:57, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The specification states that "Prefetch requests must not include >>> cookies." which is not an effective measure to prevent user profiling. >> >> I suspect it's to reduce the size of the request. > > -> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-browser-hints-04#section-5.10> Pre-fetch has a "must not" for omitting cookies, whereas browser hints are optional. I tend to agree with this being a "must not" requirement. ~Brady
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