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Re:API responses should be signed by cprecioso on Monday January 20, 2020 @03:30AM (#22097321)
Then this new technology might be useful

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/signed-exc...

It's part of a family of technologies developed by Google to rehost AMP pages without losing the origin.

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Re:API responses should be signed by endgame on Monday January 20, 2020 @03:36AM (#22097354)
Digging themselves out of problems that didn't need to exist. They could have just penalised fat pages.
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Re:API responses should be signed by cprecioso on Monday January 20, 2020 @03:43AM (#22097389)
While I agree with your point, and think AMP should not need to exist, Signed HTTP exchange might actually be great for other types of very cheap, dumb caches or CDNs that only have to rehost one file to cache a page, and not even serve it through SSL.

I know I might use it as a web designer to send interactive snapshots of how the website currently looks/works to the client; instead of using an ephemeral URL and a tunnelling/proxy service.

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