- From: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:47:57 +0100
Nicholas Shanks wrote: > May I suggest that you also allow the DOM "referrer" attribute to match > a HTTP "Referrer" header if one is present, and fall back to the > "Referer" header otherwise. This provides for HTML 5 compliant UAs to be > forwards compatible with a potential future HTTP spec that fixes the typo. > I think it would be the responsibility of that hypothetical future HTTP spec to describe backwards-compatibility requirements. Having everything that depends on HTTP have language about handling a possible future extension of HTTP that doesn't even exist is likely to result in lots of conflicting requirements. Or is there actually a new version of HTTP under discussion somewhere that I've missed?
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