Re: [server-timing] header definition

Thanks Mark. Can you please review
https://github.com/w3c/server-timing/pull/2 - if that looks good I'll merge
it in.

ig

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Nottingham, Mark <mnotting@akamai.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> <http://w3c.github.io/server-timing/> defines the Server-Timing header
> field as:
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>   Server-Timing = "Server-Timing" ":" metric  [ ";" description ]
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> HTTP says that a header that doesn't use the #rule for its ABNF isn't
> allowed to repeat; see <
> http://httpwg.github.io/specs/rfc7230.html#field.order>.
>
> However, it's very clear from the examples that the intent for this header
> is to repeat. If our intent is to allow multiple headers for Server-Timing
> (a good idea, I think), we'll need to define it as comma-delimited.
>
> We'll also need to register the header with IANA; including the template
> in the spec should work just fine.
>
> For other things to think about when creating headers, see:
>
> http://httpwg.github.io/specs/rfc7231.html#considerations.for.new.header.fields
>
> Generally speaking - I very strongly recommend we get some level of review
> from HTTP WG when we create new protocol elements.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham    mnot@akamai.com    https://www.mnot.net/
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