http-source-information-header

A Draft IETF RFC

• draft-kisteleki-httpbis-source-information-header

This document proposes a new optional HTTP header field to provide an identifier of the HTTP server generating the response to a user request. Such a header could be used to identify which geographic-location or server-instance is being reached by the user. This can be useful in anycast deployments and/or CDNs.

Examples

Server-ID: JFK

Server-ID: 2334677359553192-SIN

building txt and html files

This is done with the Makefile.

• xml2rfc -N --text draft-kisteleki-httpbis-source-information-header.xml
• xml2rfc -N --html draft-kisteleki-httpbis-source-information-header.xml

You will need xml2rfc installed.

pip install xml2rfc

Authors

• Robert Kisteleki @ RIPE NCC
• Martin J. Levy @ CloudFlare