Annals of HTTP headers

by olleolleolle Posted on 2007-08-3

I got a weird header from my local Apache 2.2.4 today.

X-Pad: avoid browser bug

These guys could tell me what it was:

In six cases the HTTP message “X-Pad: avoid browser bug” was sent. This was an unannounced change to Apache version 1.2b9 which provided a fix for a bug in Netscape versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2.

Who knew.

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One Response to Annals of HTTP headers

  1. Dlade says:
    2007-08-3 at 13:35

    For a collection of fun headers around the web, see this old thing: http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-headers

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