Nuts - wrong mailing list.. I will resend on the spec one, please disregard
shindig folks.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Cassie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I can't quite figure out what the resolution of this issue was.
> Did we decide on anything? Are there any proposals on the table?
>
> - Cassie
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Reinoud Elhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Back on the original discussion: I think the proxy-ing Shindig server
> > should
> > behave just like a proxy, including using the HTTP/1.1 proxy headers, at
> > least for the simple (non-oAuth) makeRequests. As Kevin stated before,
> > nothing in the spec says that makeRequest should be proxied or sent
> > through
> > any Sindig/proxy server; I may want to implement it on my container
> > through
> > Flash/ActiveX/browser extension. Adding extra mystery headers that
> > gadget
> > developers come to rely on is therefor bad (or, at least, should be part
> > of
> > the spec, not a Shindig implementation).
> >
> > So +1 for Paul's:
> >
> > I do like the idea of using correct proxy cache headers.  I suggest
> > mandating HTTP/1.1 Via: headers, and highly recommending
> > X-Forwarded-For:
> >
> > On 2/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >  Yeah, but not allowing images is pretty much out of the question.
> > You
> > > may as
> > > >  well not render gadgets :)
> > >
> > >
> > > I just want to point out that there is a possible distinction that may
> > > or may not be useful, based on your point about the rewriting proxy:
> > >
> > > A gadget may ask, at compile time, for the right to load certain
> > > images. The container could then pre-load these all (or not, or load
> > > them randomly, or whatever), in which case loading the image cannot be
> > > used as a wall-banging channel to the outside world.
> > >
> > > A completely different authority is the authority to load any
> > > arbitrary image from a URL composed at run time, in which case this
> > > constitutes a much more serious outbound channel.
> > >
> > > Ihab
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ihab A.B. Awad, Palo Alto, CA
> > >
> >
>
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