[whatwg] XXX-Origin header

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Apr 2 21:33:23 PDT 2009


On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Bil Corry wrote:
>
> Since the public-webapps list was never able to reconcile[1] HTML5's 
> Origin header (now renamed XXX-Origin[2]) with CORS's Origin header[3], 
> we're left with two headers with similar implementations and similar 
> names.

The name "XXX-Origin" is a temporary name (I use "XXX" to mark known 
issues); I'm waiting for the discussion in the HTTP working group to 
settle so that I can fix it.

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