short names for headers

Marc Salomon (marc@ckm.ucsf.edu)
Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:35:00 -0700


from minutes, HTTP Working Group, IETF June 96, Montreal
|Aug 1:   (Leach)   draft on sticky headers, short names for headers, and

Can short names for headers (Good Idea) be compatible with existing practice in
HTTP/1.x or must it wait until 2.x?  Does allowing aliases for the names of the
header fields alter the general message parsing algorithm or message semantics
as specified in 3.1 of HTTP/1.1?

-marc

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