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		lorenzhs on Sept 30, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DNS-over-HTTPS 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/ - see section 10 for an example.

kuschku on Sept 30, 2016 [–]

Considering 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 on Sept 30, 2016 | [–]

"We need to restrict this to prevent abuse."

-- time passes --

"We need to change everything in order to accomplish a task under these restrictons."

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