WKD v05: DNS problem when requesting pubkey

[Werner Koch]

On Fri,  6 Apr 2018 09:44, bernhard at intevation.de said:

>  * for http is is a performance penalty

Nobody says that you need to do a SRV query for all http requests.

>  * if it to be implemented in http it had to be agreed in an 
>    (upcoming) standard for http

SRV records have nothing to do with http but are required for certain
other services.  Web browser do all kind of stuff meanwhile and thus I
see no reason not to allow access - for extension - to do a bit more
than AAAA and CNAME queries.

> For understandable reasons the do not implement general networking
> as it would violate their security model around the same origin policy.

Now, that is a pretty lame excuse.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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