Re: Issue-107, Issue-120, Issue-124

On Feb 27, 2012, at 4:11 PM, John Simpson wrote:

> Hi Roy and David,
> 
> I was just reading the latest version of the TPE standard dated today, Feb. 27.  As I now read and understand it you've got a response from a well-known URI as a *must* and an HTTP response header as a *may*.

Matthias made the header field a SHOULD as the resolution of ISSUE-105.
I just moved that resolution down to the header proposal section last night.

  http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/track/issues/105

> Am I reading this right?  I thought we were still trying to decide which is the better method. Have I missed something on the email list?

They are both still in the document.  Sec 5.2 starts with:

  An origin server MAY indicate the tracking status for a particular
  request by including a Tk header field in the corresponding response.
  If a request contains a DNT-field-value starting with "1", an origin
  server SHOULD send a Tk header field in the corresponding response.

The first MAY is for all requests, with or without DNT.  The second is
a SHOULD because that's what ISSUE-105 resolved, IIRC.  I have not
yet made the change suggested by Tom, because I haven't had time to
do any further edits (or figure out exactly what he meant on the call,
since we really didn't have time to discuss it properly).

....Roy

Received on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 00:37:20 UTC