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Document the the X-Requested-With HTTP header #4178

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MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

X-Requested-With link is broken!

Specific section or headline?

It's under Other

What did you expect to see?

documentation about X-Requested-With header

Did you test this? If so, how?

click the link

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  1. sideshowbarker commented on Apr 17, 2021

    @sideshowbarker
    Member

    Yeah the cause is, nobody has yet written the https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-Requested-With article.

    So the task for whoever works on this would be to write that article.

  2. techsin commented on Apr 22, 2021

    @techsin
    Author

    how do I find out who works on that?

  3. hamishwillee commented on Apr 23, 2021

    @hamishwillee
    Collaborator

    @techsin This is open source, so it could be anyone - you're most welcome to take it on. At some point if my list of things got small enough I might take it on.

  4. himanshugarg commented on May 24, 2021

    @himanshugarg
    Contributor

    Using a link checker found the following headers with broken links. Do we need all of these to have their own:-

    • Viewport-Width
    • Width
    • Max-Forwards
    • Origin-Isolation
    • X-Download-Options
    • X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies
    • X-Powered-By
    • Last-Event-ID
    • Ping-From
    • Ping-To
    • Report-To
    • Sec-WebSocket-Key
    • Sec-WebSocket-Extensions
    • Sec-WebSocket-Protocol
    • Sec-WebSocket-Version
    • Accept-Push-Policy
    • Accept-Signature
    • Push-Policy
    • Signature
    • Signed-Headers
    • Service-Worker-Allowed
    • X-Firefox-Spdy
    • X-Pingback
    • X-Requested-With
    • X-Robots-Tag
    • X-UA-Compatible
  5. techsin commented on May 24, 2021

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  6. hamishwillee commented on May 25, 2021

    @hamishwillee
    Collaborator

    Yes. Though there are plenty of headers that are not in W3C specs - e.g. the Sec-* ones I talk about here: #4907 (comment)

    Further there may be some not even mentioned on MDN yet.

    But yes, over time we should aim to document all headers that have been broadly implemented. I will get to Viewport-Width and Width sometime soon as part of #4907

    FYI very soon most of these broken links will start showing up as red links. No link checker required.

  7. changed the title [-]Issue with "HTTP headers": (short summary here please)[/-] [+]Document the the X-Requested-With HTTP header[/+] on Jun 15, 2021
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  10. Josh-Cena commented on Dec 22, 2022

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    Member

    Duplicate of #1458

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