Boris Zbarsky wrote:
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Gavin Sharp wrote:
It appears this behavior was explicitly chosen in Mozilla, in bug
190561 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190561). I
think the arguments given in that bug might merit reconsideration;
detection of image existence is currently possible by other means
How, exactly?
I don't actually recall what I was referring to in that message, but
observing the images affect on layout seems to work pretty well:
https://people.mozilla.com/~gavin/detect-image.html
There are also timing attacks, I suppose, but those aren't quite as
reliable...
Gavin
