Re: Use of extension-header in entity-header

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   In RFC 2616 and the current drafts the extension-header is used only
> in the entity-header production, suggesting all headers not defined by
> it are entity headers, which I don't think is intended. Perhaps it
> should be referenced in Request and Response as alternative to entity-
> header instead?
> ...

I think this is on purpose; Roy has pointed out frequently that HTTP/1.1 
doesn't have an extension point for this.

Now, should we / can we fix this? Dunno.

In practice, new request/response headers are defined all the time, and 
people minting them just need to deal with the fact that conforming 
HTTP/1.1 implementations may treat them as entity headers.

BR, Julian