Standards to follow for custom Request Headers

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I'm adding a custom request header to my jQuery AJAX call and was wondering if there are standards / best practices to follow on specifying the name of your custom header. I see a lot of non-standard headers start with X-. Should I do something like this? Does it matter?

"X-My-Header" : "value"

Duplicate question. You are on the correct track. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3561381/custom-http-headers-naming-conventions — Eric LaForce, Nov 08 '11 at 02:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '11 at 17:29

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If you're minting new HTTP headers I recommend you read Mark Nottingham's Web API Versioning Smackdown.

answered Dec 14 '11 at 17:29

johnstok

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Standards to follow for custom Request Headers

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