- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:58:39 +0200
- To: "Jake Archibald" <jaffathecake@gmail.com>, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:02:48 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Jake Archibald <jaffathecake@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Causing a network error in existing browsers is a shame. It seems to fail to resolve in IE10. It works in Gecko/WebKit/Blink/Presto: the %! is requested literally. However, both Apache and IIS seems to return 400 Bad Request. >> It'd be great if >> older browsers requested a url which included the zip location & the >> file >> within, so the server could unpack the zip and deliver the right file. >> Whereas modern browsers would request the zip & handle the unpacking >> clientside. Although I guess that would break a load of stuff. > > Picking something that could occur in paths seems problematic. I'm not sure why it's more problematic than something than could occur in the fragment. For instance, the string "$zip=" is not present at all in http://webdevdata.org/ data set 18/06/2013. So maybe we could use a string like that in the path and have a graceful fallback path in legacy browsers that work in existing servers. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
Received on Thursday, 29 August 2013 14:04:50 UTC