I have to pass a meta-information in my HTTP response so I figured out that I could use the response header, for instance “X-MyData: 123456”. Is that safe? I mean, there is a possibility that a client proxy remove this header?
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I have to pass a meta-information in my HTTP response so I figured out that I could use the response header, for instance “X-MyData: 123456”. Is that safe? I mean, there is a possibility that a client proxy remove this header?
Thanks!
A client proxy could do anything it wanted, but in general would not strip any headers.
Headers starting with an X- are typically reserved for nonstandard usage (i.e. no future standard will introduce a header starting X-) but a proxy may understand them and choose to modify them as it wants.