Re: [dev-servo] HTTP referer disabled by default

2015-02-04 Thread James Graham
On 04/02/15 14:57, Manish Goregaokar wrote: > I don't see any, however since Servo isn't being dogfooded yet, there's not > much data we can gather on this (yet). > > Still, it would be interesting to hide a bunch of "useful" web platform > features behind some flags, add some specific reporting/l

Re: [dev-servo] HTTP referer disabled by default

2015-02-04 Thread Manish Goregaokar
I don't see any, however since Servo isn't being dogfooded yet, there's not much data we can gather on this (yet). Still, it would be interesting to hide a bunch of "useful" web platform features behind some flags, add some specific reporting/logging, and see how many of them are really needed (an

Re: [dev-servo] HTTP referer disabled by default

2015-02-04 Thread Jack Moffitt
> However, do see Brian Smith's recent proposal on this topic: > https://briansmith.org/referrer-01.html This looks extremely reasonable. Is there any reason not to adopt this in Servo and see if it works? jack. ___ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@list

Re: [dev-servo] HTTP referer disabled by default

2015-01-21 Thread Gervase Markham
On 20/01/15 19:33, Kyle Huey wrote: > Unfortunately removing the referrer header is generally not compatible with > the web. However, do see Brian Smith's recent proposal on this topic: https://briansmith.org/referrer-01.html Gerv ___ dev-servo mailing

Re: [dev-servo] HTTP referer disabled by default

2015-01-20 Thread Kyle Huey
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Marcus wrote: > The HTTP referer hurts people's privacy and serve no purpose but to give > companies, governments and website owners in general information about the > person visiting the page. > If servo is to respect its users and their privacy, actually being t

[dev-servo] HTTP referer disabled by default

2015-01-20 Thread Marcus
The HTTP referer hurts people's privacy and serve no purpose but to give companies, governments and website owners in general information about the person visiting the page. If servo is to respect its users and their privacy, actually being the browser of the future, I think the HTTP referer sho