I've been sensing a flaw in HTTP for some time now. It seems like you ought to be able to do everything through a URL that you can using a complete interface to HTTP. Specifically, I'd love to be able to specify values for HTTP headers in a URL.
To plug that gap locally, I'm looking for a java servlet filter that will look for query parameters in a URL, recognize that some of them are HTTP Headers, strip the query parms and set those Headers in the request that my java servlet eventually gets. Does such a filter exist already? I've looked and not been able to find anything. It seems like the work of minutes to produce such a filter. I'll be happy to put it out as Open Source if there's any interest. Thanks! Ralph