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A comment on DNS-over-HTTPS. Parent comment

Re:DNS-over-HTTPS by lorenzhs on Friday September 30, 2016 @06:53AM (#12611674)
Well I think it's a good idea to prevent web pages from just opening up a socket to some server, speaking whatever protocol they like. It could be easily abused to spam, etc.

There is, however, https://www.w3.org/TR/tcp-udp-sockets/ - see section 10 for an example.

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Re:DNS-over-HTTPS by kuschku on Friday September 30, 2016 @08:18AM (#12611989)
Considering the move proposed in this thread to move even SMTP to HTTP, how would preventing connecting to SMTP prevent spam when one can still POST to SMTP-over-HTTP?
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Re:DNS-over-HTTPS by paulddraper on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:13AM (#12612932)
"We need to restrict this to prevent abuse."

-- time passes --

"We need to change everything in order to accomplish a task under these restrictons."

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