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Re: Last Call: <draft-nottingham-safe-hint-05.txt> (The "safe" HTTP Preference) to Proposed Standard

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Tue, 28 October 2014 02:21 UTC

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On 10/27/2014 7:19 PM, Matthew Kerwin wrote:
>     So there is no model for communicating back to the browser that content
>     is safe or not, nevermind for communicating up to the user.
> 
> 
> Actually, there's Preference-Applied. I don't recall seeing that
> forbidden by this draft, and it's a "MAY send" in RFC 7240. That said,
> it would still be a bit silly for a browser to add UI to advertise the
> presence of the header.


Forgive me, but:  THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS DRAFT.

My comments concerned only this draft.

D/


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Dave Crocker
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