Re:FreeBSD 13.0 Beta1 Now Available
by stock_toaster on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:20PM
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My guess would be to prevent middlebox fiddling.
Such as an end user device asking for 4k, but a middlebox somewhere between the customer and Netflix inspecting the http content and blocking it (or modifying the client request in flight), because "only 480p allowed here" or something like that.
Such as an end user device asking for 4k, but a middlebox somewhere between the customer and Netflix inspecting the http content and blocking it (or modifying the client request in flight), because "only 480p allowed here" or something like that.