Re: Bikeshed: "context" parameter for signatures

[Tyler Ham <[e-mail]>]

My first thought when I see the labels "app" and "application" is that the
value is meant to be the name of an application.

How about something like "appdata"? This changes the noun to a generic
"data", but it keeps "app" in there as an adjective to indicate that this
parameter is for something application-specific.

Tyler


On Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 8:43 AM Justin Richer <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I missed an issue that had been filed (but not tagged) prior to the
> publication of signatures-12, and it asks a pretty simple question:
>
> We added a “context” parameter to allow applications to put a specific
> string that the application can recognize into the signature parameter set,
> so that (for example) an authz protocol can declare that a specific value
> be used or a cloud deployment can have all of its proxies use the same
> value. However, the term “context” is used in other ways in the spec, so
> it’s not the best term to use for this new parameter. The proposal is to
> change “context” to “application” or even the shorter “app”:
>
> https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/2249
>
>
> I’d like to do a quick bike shed on this parameter name here, for anyone
> who has an opinion. Since it’s newer, existing libraries mostly don’t have
> it supported yet so if we’re going to change it we should change it right
> now.
>
>
> Thanks,
>  — Justin
>