Re: [Webpush] Subscription Sets - Pull Request

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 23 October 2015 22:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Webpush] Subscription Sets - Pull Request
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On 23 October 2015 at 15:14, Brian Raymor <Brian.Raymor@microsoft.com> wrote:
> We initially considered this approach in Prague, but discovered that it's fragile. For example, what happens if the client does not include the required subscription set link?

I don't think that's fragility, that's a feature.  If the server
thinks that a user agent is acting badly and not including these
links, it can (and should) limit the number of subscriptions it is
willing to create on a given connection.