Re: No more X- prefix in HTTP headers? (was: Introducing Tracer...)

2015-05-22 Thread Chetan Mehrotra
Hi Roy, On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Roy Fielding wrote: > If your application sends messages outside its own memory space, X- is not > appropriate for > those fields Would not that be the case for all headers i.e. as it involves remote communication. If using X-Sling-Tracer is not approp

Re: No more X- prefix in HTTP headers? (was: Introducing Tracer...)

2015-05-21 Thread Roy Fielding
> On May 21, 2015, at 1:40 AM, Chetan Mehrotra > wrote: > > Repeating my answer on the other thread > > === > That recommendation is meant for headers which are > meant to be used in a wider context. Header which are very much > specific to application are better prefixed to indicate that they

Re: No more X- prefix in HTTP headers? (was: Introducing Tracer...)

2015-05-21 Thread Chetan Mehrotra
Repeating my answer on the other thread === That recommendation is meant for headers which are meant to be used in a wider context. Header which are very much specific to application are better prefixed to indicate that they are custom ones IMHO [2]. So I would prefer naming them X-Sling-Tracers.

No more X- prefix in HTTP headers? (was: Introducing Tracer...)

2015-05-21 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Robert Munteanu wrote: > ...the X- prefix is deprecated with RFC6648 [1].. Interesting, so IIUC the plan is just to use our own prefix like Sling- for custom headers, and hope for the best? -Bertrand > [1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648