[Project_owners] Link Fingerprinting

[Michael Vincent van Rantwijk]

Philip Chee wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007 14:19:18 +0200, Brian King wrote:
>> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:
> 
>>> Isn't this link fingerprint feature/thing going to bite Firefox users 
>>> here at mozdev.org?
> 
>>> My point is that there is only one download link from our pages, but 
>>> there are download mirrors, of which some have proven to be slow at 
>>> times so the link fingerprint won't be correct at all times, and in that 
>>> case Firefox deletes the download file.
> 
>>> How should this be addressed on mozdev.org?
> 
>> Do you have a link for more information on this feature?
> 
> FYI, this is a heads up. I just read that in the firefox 3 timeframe
> that they plan to restrict extension XPinstall only from httpS sites.

See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378216

> You may need to do some forward planning with the mirrors group.
> 
> Phil
>