[whatwg] Solving the login/logout problem in HTML

[Henri Sivonen]

On Nov 26, 2008, at 13:19, Julian Reschke wrote:

> So wouldn't it make sense to address the common use case so that it  
> doesn't require the "bot" (the non-HTML UA) to parse the response  
> body?


That seems like a bad optimization. Adding an off-the-shelf HTML  
parser to a bot is much easier than tuning the general crawling  
functionality and task-specific functionality of a bot.

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