Re: [websec] X-Requested-With header field

Tobias Gondrom <tobias.gondrom@gondrom.org> Wed, 14 December 2011 04:58 UTC

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Maybe two questions:
1. any volunteers to write this up?

2. is there a coherent documentation of expected use of the header?
I looked a bit, but didn't find a good one.

Best regards, Tobias


On 13/12/11 15:40, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> On 12/13/11 3:24 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
>> it seems this header field is widely implemented. Is it here to stay? If
>> so, shouldn't it be documented somewhere?
> +1, even if it does start with that ugly "X-" string. :)
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