- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:07:35 -0700
- To: "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
- Cc: "Aryeh Gregor" <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, <robert@ocallahan.org>, "Jonathan Kew" <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote: >> Referer-based methods are unreliable, and can block users of your own >> site as well as letting through users of other sites. Some software >> will strip referer headers, or even change them. (For instance, >> IIRC, >> no browser sends Referer headers from an HTTPS site to an HTTP site.) >> Depending on referer checking isn't a good idea. > > Thank you. I am not a web developer so I would trust the experts on > this. > My point was that font vendors have so far proven to be reasonable > people willing to cooperate, which is contrary to Rob's presumption > that we would insist on a particular way of doing things (i.e. root > strings). So you would allow your fonts to be served in their raw format if referrer based blocking was used? It could provide a large amount of license violation, even if it wasn't perfect.
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