On 14 May 2013 11:37, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > > On 14/05/2013, at 6:49 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I dont think the RFC prohibits using an http identity in this field, > unless I am mistaken. > > You're mistaken; look at the ABNF. > OK thanks, got it, that makes sense. Im unsure of the full history of "from" being tied to an email string. But is there any more fundamental objection to reuse *other* than backward compatibility? I hope it is possible to see the motivation behind wanting to use HTTP a natural identity on the web. Indeed in the recent years HTTP identifiers as identity have had significant adoption, facebook been an obvious example, though not the only one. What do you think would be a natural field to identify a user, if "from" is not to be used. Would "User" make sense as "User-Agent" is already defined? > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > > > >
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