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[Matthew Thomas]

Denis de Bernardy wrote:
> 
>>Google Web Accelerator?
> 
> Given the problems related to the tool, wouldn't it be a good thing to
> disable it by default on all wordpress blogs in 1.5.1++?
>...

WordPress advertises "Full web standards compliance" as one of its 
features <http://wordpress.org/>. But if WordPress has problems with 
Google Web Accelerator, it is because WordPress is not in compliance 
with the HTTP 1.1 standard 
<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.1>.

(In particular, WordPress is non-compliant for allowing GET requests to 
delete posts, comments, or pages, to select themes, or to activate 
plug-ins.)

Either WordPress should be brought into compliance, or the "Full 
standards compliance" bullet point should be removed. Blocking Google 
Web Accelerator to get around non-compliance with HTTP 1.1 would make as 
much sense as blocking validator.w3.org referrers to get around 
non-compliance with XHTML 1.0.

-- 
Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/