ISSUE-33

ping-referer

[withdrawn] spec requires non-compliant Referer header

State:
CLOSED
Product:
HTML 5 spec
Raised by:
Julian Reschke
Opened on:
2008-02-12
Description:
The specification currently requires use of an HTTP Referer header value ("#PING") which is not allowed as per RFC2616, Section 14.36:

"The URI MUST NOT include a fragment." -- <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.36>

Related mailing list thread: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Feb/0144.html>

Related Actions Items:
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Related emails:
  1. {minutes} HTML WG issue-tracking telcon 2008-06-19 (from mike@w3.org on 2008-06-25)
  2. {minutes} HTML WG issue-tracking telcon 2008-06-05 (from mike@w3.org on 2008-06-06)
  3. ISSUE-33 (ping-referer): spec requires non-compliant Referer header [HTML 5 spec] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2008-02-12)

Related notes:

2008-06-05 17:35:56: Apparently this has been removed from the spec: <http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=1234&to=1235> [Julian Reschke]

2008-06-19 16:23:43: overtaken by changes in the spec; the offending text is no longer there [Dan Connolly]

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