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I wonder how people feel about adding other names to the Clacks header? It feels a tad lonely for his name to be the only one passed around in this manner. It s
by nagvx 10y ago
I wonder how people feel about adding other names to the Clacks header? It feels a tad lonely for his name to be the only one passed around in this manner. It seems quite like a virtual graveyard, but with only one gravestone. As much as I respect Pratchett, many others are already commemorating his name, and I would feel compelled to add another. If people put their own loved ones into the Clacks header, perhaps this idea could grow, and become a more permanent part of the internet.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoThat is an awsome idea, and we should totally do it. Don't ask for permission, because you won't get it. But if you do it, others may follow.
- jacquesm 10y agoI nominate Jon Postel if anybody deserves to live forever in internet packets it's him.
- teddyh 10y agoMaybe not in a non-standard header, though…
- poizan42 10y agoAs long as it's correctly prefixed with X- I think it should be fine.
- teddyh 10y agoI was actually referring to the fact that RFC 6648 has deprecated the X- prefix on headers.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoWell, if the tooling was built with John's advice in mind, it shouldn't break. But yes, don't go against the standard to put John's name in: only put it in the header, where such things are allowed.
- whostolemyhat 10y agoI've been sticking Iain Banks in a header as well
- arethuza 10y agoI am tempted to start adding: X-Gravitas: Very Little Indeed
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoThat absolutely works. We should all add that.
- NoGravitas 10y agoWhat do you recommend as the format? Comma-delimited? My personal website has been serving this since he died, but I'd like to also add Iain M. Banks, as someone else here suggested.
- LukeShu 10y agoComma-delimited is probably the way to go. RFC 7230 §3.2.2 establishes that you may combine multiple header fields with the same name by joining the values with commas (noting that as a special case for historical reasons, it isn't safe to do this with Set-Cookie). That is, X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Lain M. Banks should be equivalent to X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett, GNU Lain M. Banks
- apricot 10y agoIain, not Lain. Or is some inside joke whooshing above my head like a deadline?
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y agoYeah, the interents needs a Banks memorial meme. Maybe not a clacks overhead though, it wouldn't make terrible sense. I'm trying to think of something fitting from the books- perhaps there's something civs leave behind when they sublime? Something reminding those crazy conversations between ships in Excession that could be added to IRC channels?
- bwldrbst 10y agoSurely there's room in Unicode for Marain characters?
- arethuza 10y ago"I Sublime, I Sublime, I Sublime" NB I have tried it, didn't appear to work :-(
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago