Gisle Hannemyr wrote:
> One mechanism, which has been used in electronic mail for some time
> with considerable success, is to reserve the initial string "X-" and
> require all non-standard header fields to start with this string.
Interloper speaking up: you might want to go one step further and say that
someone from example.com who defines a non-standard qualifier should prefix
it with "x-com-example-". Like Java package names. Otherwise, two people
might define X-Whatever separately, and have to filter it out before
exchanging data. This way, you get the filter automatically.
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