Hixie (not reading bugmail) Reporter
	Description • 23 years ago

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
   Go to a web page with links in <meta> tags, e.g.:
      http://www.bath.ac.uk/~py8ieh/internet/eviltests/link4.html

ACTUAL RESULTS
   The link toolbar has no links.

EXPECTED RESULTS
   Identical to http://www.bath.ac.uk/~py8ieh/internet/eviltests/link2.html

cc'ing usual suspects as per bug 102832.

	Gervase Markham [:gerv]
	Comment 1 • 23 years ago

This is definitely an RFE, together with supporting Link: headers that the
webserver sends. We took it out of the initial implementation because it wasn't
working. 

Also, I seem to remember noticing last night that HTTP 1.1 deprecates Link:
headers. See the end of section 19.6.3 of RFC 2616. Do we really need to support
them at all?

Gerv

	sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)
	Comment 2 • 23 years ago

cool new feature!

->claudius, since he tests toolbars.

	Hixie (not reading bugmail) Reporter
	Comment 3 • 23 years ago

Gerv: Yes, we do. It was only taken out of the spec because there were no 
implementations. If implementations spring up, it will be added back in.

HTTP Link headers are an amazingly powerful feature. We support them for
stylesheets, making it possible to style an entire website without touching a
single file outside the server configuration. Similarly, supporting Link for the
link toolbar would give the same power for linking. If we support real headers
(bug 102907) then we should definitely support <meta> headers, since they should
always be treated identically. (In fact, we should not have to do any extra work
to do this -- if one works, the other should automatically work if we have a
well designed architecture. Please bare this in mind when fixing this bug.)

	Eric Hodel
	Comment 4 • 23 years ago

Supporting <media> would be no more difficult than supporting the HTTP Link:, as
the parsing code would be identical.  The only difference would be the few extra
lines to grab all the <media> elements from the document to pull out the Link:
headers.

	Hixie (not reading bugmail) Reporter
	Comment 5 • 23 years ago

s/<media>/<meta>/

	Brant Gurganus
	Comment 6 • 22 years ago

Is this related: http://www.richinstyle.com/test/attachment/http.php?

	Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)
	Comment 7 • 16 years ago

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".

	Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen) (away from Bugzilla until 2023-09-11)
	Comment 8 • 14 years ago

Shouldn't this be WONTFIXed now that HTML5 obsoletes http-equiv="Link"?

	Philip Chee
	Comment 9 • 14 years ago

WONTFIX based on Comment 8