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Re: How many garbage/ignored headers can I send to cURL?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 17:05:53 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 8 Oct 2016, Thorsten Schöning wrote:

> Good to hear, thanks. From your experience, does my approach sound like it
> will most lokely break other HTTP libs? It sounds HTTP compliant to me and I
> would guess most libs work like cURL regarding unused headers.

It is certainly HTTP compliant but lots of HTTP libs will add all headers to a
dictionary that might then grow very large so I'm sure some of those will stop
accepting new headers at some point. 

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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