WICG / WICG/webpackage

Address clients that are offline for long periods of time

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Description

People with expensive data plans may run out of data early in a month, and not come back online until the next month. The 7-day validity limit in https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-http-origin-signed-responses.html#signature-validity is good or even too long while online, but not enough while offline. We need to figure out if we can give clients permission to use expired signatures under certain circumstances, and if so, how to specify that.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start with the linked HTTP Origin Signed Responses section on signature validity and review the issue discussion for the offline-client constraints. Determine whether expired signatures can be used safely and what specification changes would be required; done means the behavior and conditions are clearly specified.

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Assessment

Domain
web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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