Re: Avoiding X-Headers

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 06:07:57 CST


In <rj7kqspxwl.fsf@ssv2.dina.kvl.dk> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

>chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) writes:

>> and X-headers are a good way to let everybody see that such a header
>> is unofficial and can (usually) be safely ignored.

>Does it matter? If we are talking software, what else can it do with
>a header it doesn't recognize, than ignore it?

I think the point is that if a user sees an X-Header, he can more easily
say "Oh! I can obviously ignore that as it was obvioulsy intended to be
ignored".

Anyway, I suggested a wording a couple of days ago. Some feedback from
others would be nice. It is not cast in stone.

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