[10396] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP header suggestion/request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MegaZone)
Fri Nov 8 08:56:25 1996
To: snowhare@netimages.com (Benjamin Franz)
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 05:54:39 -0800 (PST)
Cc: megazone@livingston.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com,
www-talk@w3.org, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Reply-To: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961108053155.12245A-100000@ns.viet.net> from "Benjamin Franz" at Nov 8, 96 05:37:02 am
From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Once upon a time Benjamin Franz shaped the electrons to say...
>most sites that do this do. There is no real reason to feed it out of the
>script itself. This also allows you to try to load balance download sites
Yes there is - lawyers. They wanted it so that there was no way to the
file except via the script which contains a licensing agreement. Redirecting
to another URL would allow that URL to leak and people to get the code
directly.
Yes - cookies could maintain state - and exclude a lot of people.
Note replies redirected to www-talk@w3.org so we stop bothering the WG.
-MZ
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