[apps-discuss] HTTP header field for "URI lifetime"

[Erik Wilde <[e-mail]>]

hello.

we had some discussions at www2015 about a possible HTTP header for 
exposing a URI's "lifetime". please do not get hung up on any 
terminology, but the scenarios we discussed included:

- a service entering the sunset period and wanting to expose the fact 
that it is going to stop operating at some point in time.

- a service doing archiving and wanting to expose that resources will 
only be kept until a certain time, and then disposed.

- a service that might want to encourage users to check back regularly 
so that they might implement some strategy to check back periodically 
and see if the resource is still available or not.

we could not think of an exiting HTTP header field for exposing this 
kind of information. i have two questions:

- is there such a header field?

- if not, is that something that people find interesting and possibly 
useful, or do people think that's not needed or even a bad idea?

thanks a lot and cheers,

dret.

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