Re: Refresh, non-standard headers, [was Re: Forcing to another page to load]

touch@ISI.EDU:
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>> From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
[...]
>> Should [sic] there be a requirement that HTTP servers SHOULD NOT
>> send non-standard headers?
[...]
>Non-standard headers MUST be ignored by the client (browser).
>(if this isn't in a document somewhere, it should be by now)

It is in a document: see draft-ietf-http-versions-01.txt.

Note that the header handling rules MUST be at a level higher than the
individual protocol version definitions.  Some of the headers that are
non-standard for HTTP/1.0 are standard for HTTP/1.1, etc.

Koen.