Re: Is there a way to identify the a user in a web request?

* Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>It could be done, but I think there would be pushback from the IETF on
>this, as "From" has some legacy relation to email.
>
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.22
>
>Mark Nottingham has suggested that the ABNF forbids the use of HTTP
>identifiers, but I am unsure that this is 100% accurate, as the RFC says
>"SHOULD"

That HTTP messages conform to the ABNF grammar for HTTP messages is a
MUST, anything other than a `mailbox` value in the From header is un-
conditionally incorrect.
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