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A lot of forums and blogs would prefer that some sites not know that they are talking about them. I've come across it several times and doesn't seem like such a

• mustpax 17y ago
  From the vagueness of your statement, it sounds like these forums fall into the second category of being up to no good in the first place.
  • dwiel 17y ago
    aka: "if you aren't doing anything wrong, what've you got to hide"
    • bd 17y ago
      Not necessarily "wrong". For example, you could have an internal company wiki which would include links to competitor's site.
    • mustpax 17y ago
      Unfortunately, public protocols like HTTP need to manage communication between parties that do not trust each other. This is not a legal matter, so there is no necessity to establish motives or plausibility. A secure protocol is charged with limiting the damage any malicious party using the protocol might do. This addition to the spec is contrary to that fact. Allowing a site to scrub its outgoing connections assumes a certain level of trust, which on the web ought not exist by default.