- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 13:10:31 +1000
- To: Brian Pane <brianp@brianp.net>
- Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 09/04/2011, at 8:49 AM, Brian Pane wrote: > The rollout of a naming change will be difficult; I > anticipate that proxy servers will end up sending both X-Forwarded-For > and Forwarded-For for many years. That might be inevitable, but it > brings to mind two concerns: Why so? If they control the software that's consuming it, they can change it in a reasonably bounded amount of time. If they don't, why will they care? XFF is a completely non-standard header that is more than often NOT sent by proxies, so removing it shouldn't break anything. > - People who plan to log Forwarded-For data for forensic purposes will > need to keep logging X-Forwarded-For as well. If they're that interested, they're likely to log everything anyway... Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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