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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
by lorenzhs 10y ago
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/ https://www.w3.org/TR/tcp-udp-sockets/ - see section 10 for an example.
- kuschku 10y agoConsidering 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?
- paulddraper 10y ago"We need to restrict this to prevent abuse." -- time passes -- "We need to change everything in order to accomplish a task under these restrictons."