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It blows my mind that it’s 2023 and we still can’t have an anchor or a form carry out an HTTP PUT or DELETE request without using a library like htmx.

But Web DRM? Sure, we’re working on that!

*smh*

#web#dev#hypermedia

@aral Another example: web browsers (including Firefox or derivatives) will not report the progress of a HTTP POST to the user, for no reason. This makes file uploading without JS painful because you never know when it's going to end.

My JS-less web application, slcl, is suffering from this issue: gitea.privatedns.org/xavi/slcl

GiteaslclA simple and lightweight cloud written in C99 plus POSIX.1-2008 extensions.
Aral Balkan

@xavi92 Can you think of some way that reporting the progress of a HTTP POST can be used to violate privacy and improve surveillance based ads? If so, engineers at Google are standing by to take your call.

@aral Damn, now I understand why this feature never got implemented!

@aral @xavi92 Transfer progress can be used to approximate bandwidth characteristics and find usable timing markers for netflow analysis.

Though really that's just true of all low-latency transfers, especially those with no added indirection circuits.