- From: Peter Hall <peterjoel@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:15:10 -0400
> Why would, e.g., Flickr, > ever unregister itself as an image/x-flickr handler? (The only theoretical > case I can see, namely the site changing its server location, seems like a > bad reason -- you should always support the old location, good URIs don't > change.) Perhaps a developer at Flickr made a typo...? Peter On 4/24/06, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Christian Biesinger wrote: > > > > > > They can't be checked at the registration point, because the URI might > > > become valid before it is used, and because the networking library > > > might not be able to tell if the URI is valid without fetching it. > > > (It's also not really clear where you draw the line of an "invalid" > > > URI -- is http://192.0.2.812/ an invalid URI?) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20060424/40cbc2b7/attachment.htm>
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