Pre-Denied: Scope of Semantics (#3409)

<https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/3409>

The initial draft suggests 'Preliminary Request Denied', which is fairly specific. In subsequent discussion, a broader semantic, such as 'Purpose Declined' was suggested.

Personally, I'm OK with broadening them, so long as it doesn't cause any issues down the road.

In particular, if we pin its semantics to the Sec-Purpose header field, are we going to have to pull that into the specification? If so, we'll need to coordinate with WHATWG:
  https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#sec-purpose-header

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

Received on Friday, 3 April 2026 21:14:29 UTC