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Re: [apps-discuss] Slash and version number in Authentication-results: header field

Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com> Wed, 22 May 2013 12:46 UTC

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From: Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:46:37 -0400
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Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> wrote:

>You know, as I think about this, my key question is why remove it?
>
>If that's not essential, then we can just have future versions use a
>different header field name, so instead of:
>
>Authentication-Results: example.org/2 [...]
>
>We have:
>
>Authentication-Results-2: example.org [...]
>
>A simplistic M*A might be confused by the presence of the first, but
>surely
>would simply ignore the presence of the second form?
>

Did you mean "why not remove it"?

Scott K

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