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alt-svc: Alt-Used security discussion #121

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@LPardue

Section 5 foreshadows a discussion about privacy

As the Alt-Used header field might be used by the server for tracking the client, a client MAY choose not to include it in its requests for protecting its privacy (see Section 9.4).

However, Section 9.4 doesn't contain any mention of Alt-Used. Maybe all the information contained in the document is enough but this just struck me as a little odd.

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  1. reschke commented on Nov 28, 2015

    @reschke
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    This inconsistency was caused by the fix for #36.

    AFAIR, we made this change because the risk of tracking is there no matter whether Alt-Used is sent (see current Section 9.4). Thus, the simplest possible change would be to remove the whole sentence and the misleading forward reference.

  2. mnot commented on Dec 6, 2015

    @mnot
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    SGTM.

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