[Labs-l] Tribute header added for web proxy through equid

Stephen E Slevinski Jr slevin at signpuddle.net
Tue Dec 22 22:35:20 UTC 2015


On 12/22/15 4:08 PM, Legoktm wrote:
> Can you expand on how this is causing problems for you? In the past I've
> used this header to figure out whether a request was going through the
> proxy or not...

It's a distraction that causes research.

When developers use the API, they'll get a response that includes the 
header, causing them to investigate what the header means and why it is 
included.

|< Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:27:56 GMT|
|< Content-Encoding: gzip|
|< X-Clacks-Overhead: The Smoking, GNU Terry Pratchett|
|< Server: nginx/1.9.4|
|< X-Powered-By: SignWriting Server|
|< Transfer-Encoding: chunked|
|< Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8|
|< Connection: keep-alive|

{
   "meta": {
     "totalResults": 136,
     "location": "/puddle",
     "searchTime": "2.54 ms"
   },
   "results": [


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