Re: comments in HTTP headers

> I must've been asleep when this topic first came up. Of what possible use
> are comments in HTTP headers? I'd like to understand why big parser changes
> are going to be needed for something that *seems* to be of no value to the
> client or the server.

They are commonly used in User-Agent and From fields.


 ....Roy T. Fielding  Department of ICS, University of California, Irvine USA
                                       <fielding@ics.uci.edu>
                      <URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>

Received on Monday, 17 April 1995 20:15:18 UTC