Hi Francois,
At 08:34 10-07-2009, Francois Daoust wrote:
The situation the Mobile Web Best Practices working group is trying to
address is one where different vendors used different HTTP header
field conventions (all starting with 'X-') for the same use in their
proxies, requiring content providers to support the different names
when they wanted to do things properly. What the working group would
like to do is to shrink the list of existing conventions to one and
only one convention, but would prefer not to introduce any new
convention (be it the last one) for that to happen. The 'X-Device-foo'
format is the most commonly used format in the list based on the
group's experience, and thus the chosen one.
I'll encourage you to adopt Graham's suggestion of moving to
"Device-foo" or any other valid name that does not start with "X-".
These "X-" headers are generally for private use where the
interpretation is by private agreement. There are people outside the
group that might use that header field for other purposes and they are
unlikely to look it up in the registry. If your working group already
agrees on having one convention, it is better to do away with the "X-".
