Re: Do we need to rename the Origin header?

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> >>
> >> It's not just POST that we need to worry about, ideally we should 
> >> cover the GET case as well. Or at least it's quite likely that we 
> >> will want to.
> >
> > My understanding was that we didn't want to include Origin in GET 
> > requests. In fact HTML5 right now goes out of its way to avoid 
> > including it in GET requests.
> 
> We've been debating this both ways at mozilla, no decision has been made 
> yet regarding what we'll recommend.

I've renamed it to XXX-Origin in HTML5. I haven't changed its behavior 
(it is still only sent for non-GET).

I'm trying to bring HTML5 to last call by October. Who "owns" this issue? 
Do we have an ETA on resolving it?

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