[whatwg] defining new HTTP headers

2008-09-25 Thread Julian Reschke
http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20080925#l-43: # # [04:24] gsnedders Hixie: Nobody is working on a new version of HTTP, though: 2616bis is just revising the spec, and can't make any normative changes to it. That's not entirely true; for instance, we can make normative changes if we

Re: [whatwg] defining new HTTP headers

2008-09-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:36:01 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can tell, you are speaking of a new header. This can be defined in an IETF document, in a W3C document, and in other places. You just need to register it with IANA, and expert review (hopefully) will

Re: [whatwg] defining new HTTP headers

2008-09-25 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren wrote: ... What's true is that you can't require existing HTTP/1.1 clients to send it with every POST request (did anybody seriously suggest that?). The suggestion was for POST requests the browser makes based on Web APIs (e.g., XMLHttpRequest, form, etc.). OK, so that

Re: [whatwg] defining new HTTP headers

2008-09-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:07:54 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: ... What's true is that you can't require existing HTTP/1.1 clients to send it with every POST request (did anybody seriously suggest that?). The suggestion was for POST requests the browser

Re: [whatwg] defining new HTTP headers

2008-09-25 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:07:54 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: ... What's true is that you can't require existing HTTP/1.1 clients to send it with every POST request (did anybody seriously suggest that?). The suggestion was for

Re: [whatwg] defining new HTTP headers

2008-09-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:16:06 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's the spec defining Origin? I thought it was XmlHttpRequest(2)? Access Control for Cross-Site Requests. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/ http://www.opera.com/

Re: [whatwg] defining new HTTP headers

2008-09-25 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:16:06 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's the spec defining Origin? I thought it was XmlHttpRequest(2)? Access Control for Cross-Site Requests. Ah, forgot about that one. If Origin is used by more than one spec, it might

Re: [whatwg] defining new HTTP headers

2008-09-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:28:21 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-message-headers/current/index.html So, is there a case where IANA registration was attempted and expert review did *not* happen? This e-mail from

Re: [whatwg] defining new HTTP headers

2008-09-25 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren wrote: This e-mail from January 27 never got a reply: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-message-headers/current/msg00085.html Several changes to the specification have since then be made, including changing header names again, but that happened in August. Between

Re: [whatwg] defining new HTTP headers

2008-09-25 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:04:46 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: This e-mail from January 27 never got a reply: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-message-headers/current/msg00085.html Several changes to the specification have since then be