Firefox and Fastly take another step toward a privacy upgrade for the internet

Re:Firefox and Fastly take another step toward a privacy upg... by zeroentropy on Thursday October 12, 2023 @06:41PM (#37864088)

OHTTP encapsulates a complete request, so the 1-1-1 mapping isn't right. The target can be any resource, but it generally should be on the same host/origin as the gateway. The gateway sees the request and the response, so there are very few cases where you would trust it to handle requests for any URL.

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Re:Firefox and Fastly take another step toward a privacy upg... by TradingPlaces on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:03PM (#37864309)

Thanks

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Re:Firefox and Fastly take another step toward a privacy upg... by skuhn on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:42PM (#37864609)

Yes, that's true. However in practice most deployments that I've worked on are a relay which maps all requests to a gateway which maps all requests to a target. It's not an inherent property of the protocol, and I expect that to evolve over time.

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