[cap-talk] do caps-in-URLs work in practice? (was: Disabling clipboard access in Internet Explorer)

[Mike Samuel]

Could you use <link rel="alternate" media="print"
href="./printable_version"> to downgrade the capability that shows up on the
printed page, or launder it entirely by using a generic URL that displays
printable content based on a webkey in the referrer?


2008/12/3 Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com>

> alan.karp at hp.com (Karp, Alan H) on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 wrote:
>
> >Zooko wrote:
> >>
> >> Too bad!  Tahoe's caps are too long to print in a footer.
> >>
> >Which provides the desired security.
>
> However, from RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1):
>
>      Note: Servers ought to be cautious about depending on URI lengths
>      above 255 bytes, because some older client or proxy
>      implementations might not properly support these lengths.
>
> Cheers - Bill
>
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