- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:12:00 +1000
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: public-webpayments <public-webpayments@w3.org>, Blaine Cook <romeda@gmail.com>, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
They're not invalid, but establishing the context of the link is a bit tricky (since the payload of a request is usually anonymous; i.e., it doesn't have a URI). Whether that matters or not depends on what you're doing. Cheers, On 27 Jul 2014, at 6:27 am, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > On 5/9/13 8:05 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> Hi, >> >> From's semantics and syntax are well-defined, and they are in use. If you want to do this, I'd suggest defining a new header, or a new link relation (to use in Link); From isn't going to fly. >> >> Regards, > > All, > > Coming back to the issue above, is the use of "Link:" in HTTP requests valid? I ask because, It could resolve this issue in a way that prevents custom header bloat. > > Regards, > > Kingsley >> >> >> On 09/05/2013, at 7:18 PM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org> wrote: >> >>> Excerpts from Kingsley Idehen's message of 2013-05-08 20:29:19 +0000: >>>> On 5/7/13 2:12 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >>>>> On 7 May 2013 19:01, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com >>>>> <mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 05/07/2013 04:04 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >>>>>> Yeah, I'll ping Julian Reschke or Mark Nottingham about it to see if >>>>>> we can update the HTTP header field easily. >>>>>> >>>>>> +1 >>>>>> >>>>>> There have been proponents of this for many years e.g. Toby, Nathan, >>>>>> Kingsley, myself ... just need to get the spec tweaked to >>>>>> distinguish between strings and URIs. >>>>> Do one of you want to take the lead on this? :) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sure, I would be happy to. Kingsley already asked Mark Nottingham >>>>> about this last month. Im unsure what the most productive next steps >>>>> should be. >>>> Mark, >>>> >>>> Another dimension to the same issue. >>>> >>>> We can loosen the HTTP spec requirements for "From:" without disrupting >>>> existing products that assume the header value is an Email address. >>>> >>>> All: >>>> >>>> Do we have any data about how broad current use of "From:" actually is? >>> +1 on allowing URI in "From:" request header :) >>> >>> I set it myself to email for about 2 years now using firefox extension: http://www.garethhunt.com/modifyheaders >>> >>> I also mentioned it in this email with link to work of Blaine Cook on *Privacy-over-Webfinger* >>> https://groups.google.com/group/webfinger/browse_thread/thread/52599662c273a043 >>> >>> warning: mentioned thread got mixed with another thread so few messages went off topic first! >> -- >> Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog 1: http://kidehen.blogspot.com > Personal Weblog 2: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > Personal WebID: http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this > > -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/
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