[whatwg] Registering protocol handlers

[Peter Hall]

I meant a typo in the content type, not the URI.

Perhaps there is no really good use case. But it feels right that, if you do
something, there should be a way to undo it. I certainly can't see a reason
why the ability to unregister would be detrimental or dangerous

Peter


On 4/24/06, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Peter Hall wrote:
> > >
> > > Why would, e.g., Flickr, ever unregister itself as an image/x-flickr
> > > handler? (The only theoretical case I can see, namely the site
> > > changing its server location, seems like a bad reason -- you should
> > > always support the old location, good URIs don't change.)
> >
> > Perhaps a developer at Flickr made a typo...?
>
> Sure, but in that case a simple redirect would work fine. It would be
> better to do that than to require users to unregister one handler and
> register another, especially given the number of prompts, etc, that would
> probably be involved.
>
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