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Re: [websec] default value for max-age ? (was: Re: Strict-Transport-Security syntax redux)

Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> Tue, 03 January 2012 00:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [websec] default value for max-age ? (was: Re: Strict-Transport-Security syntax redux)
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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:29 PM, =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com> wrote:

> hm ... I lean towards keeping max-age as REQUIRED (without a default value)
> and thus hopefully encouraging deployers to think a bit about this and its
> ramifications, and also because its value is so site-specific in terms of a
> web application's needs, deployment approach, and tolerance for downside
> risk of breaking itself.

I feel the same way for public key pinning, for the same reason.

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