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Bug 8412 - To prevent sites from loading gigabytes of data, shouldn't the user agent explicitly mention the size of the files in the manifest. (This would also require a check during the downloading process, as to whether the provided sizes are real)
Summary: To prevent sites from loading gigabytes of data, shouldn't the user agent exp...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-12-01 19:14 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:29 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-12-01 19:14:41 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#downloading-or-updating-an-application-cache

Comment:
To prevent sites from loading gigabytes of data, shouldn't the user agent explicitly mention the size of the files in the manifest. (This would also require a check during the downloading process, as to whether the provided sizes are real)

Posted from: 82.215.60.110
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-01-05 12:00:12 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: If the browser doesn't want to download gigabytes of data, it need but stop downloading. Requiring that the author get the file sizes right in the manifest is non-trivial, especially for dynamic resources. It's not really clear what benefit this would bring.