On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:21 PM, LeVan,Ralph <levan_at_oclc.org> wrote:
> 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.
No, you shouldn't. HTTP headers and the URL string are for completely
different purposes.
You can certainly do similar things with headers and URI components
(for example, a client could use either to specify what content type
it expects, or language preferences) but the uses don't overlap much.
Think: do you really want clients specifying Referer: or
Cache-control: as URL parameters? It's not that it'd be harmful,
just... odd.
For debugging your requests, something like LiveHTTPHeaders or Fiddler
is almost certainly cleaner.
Cheers,
-Nate
Received on Tue Jun 01 2010 - 14:50:32 EDT