#224 closed design (fixed)
Header Field Classification
Reported by: | mnot@… | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 13 |
Component: | non-specific | Severity: | Active WG Document |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
RFC2616 classifies headers (e.g., general, entity, request, response), but these classifications are sometimes misleading and often misused.
E.g., request-headers are defined as
The request-header fields allow the client to pass additional information about the request, and about the client itself, to the server. These fields act as request modifiers, with semantics equivalent to the parameters on a programming language method invocation.
We should discuss whether or not these classifications are helpful, and alternative approaches (e.g., allowing more than one classification for each header, to allow them to be more specific).
See also #104.
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by mnot@…
comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by fielding@…
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by fielding@…
- Milestone changed from unassigned to 13
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comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by mnot@…
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comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by mnot@…
- Resolution set to fixed
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comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by julian.reschke@…
- Summary changed from Header Classification to Header Field Classification
Agreement in Maastricht that header classification is less than useful.