Re: Unifying & standardizing X-Moz & X-Purpose headers

RFC2045 doesn't define HTTP headers.


On 18/10/2010, at 7:26 PM, Eric J. Bowman wrote:

> Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>> 
>> Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> 
>>> I think the only really bad/damaging thing here is starting with an
>>> "X-" header.
>> 
>> Maybe it is time to deprecate the X- convention, as it doesn't seem
>> to be working.
>> 
> 
> "In the future, more top-level types may be defined only by a
> standards-track extension to this standard. If another top-level type
> is to be used for any reason, it must be given a name starting with
> "X-" to indicate its non-standard status and to avoid a potential
> conflict with a future official name."
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045
> 
> It's RFC 2045 you'd need to change, not HTTP...
> 
> -Eric

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Received on Monday, 18 October 2010 08:35:19 UTC