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Opt-in should not apply to main document request #34

Closed yoavweiss closed 9 years ago

yoavweiss commented 10 years ago

Following the discussions at EdgeConf, and in order to enable CH-based HTML manipulations (which hopefully can reduce/eliminate the use of UA sniffing), I'm taking a stab at adding text that makes it a SHOULD for UAs to send all hints on the first request, but lets them make the hints opt-in for subsequent requests.

yoavweiss commented 10 years ago

Following an internal discussion, I've now limited the "no-need-for-opt-in" to the 'RW' hint, since there's an immediate use-case for that for server side processing.

igrigorik commented 9 years ago

@yoavweiss I'm inclined to close this: the language is out of date and doesn't address the privacy angle. Let's revisit this at later date in a wider context of first-request + persistent hints? First though, I think we should get some hands-on experience with the opt-in mode.

yoavweiss commented 9 years ago

Sure. Let's close and re-visit when needed.