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