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Table 2 HTTP headers

From: Secure cross-domain cookies for HTTP

Name

Description

Request/response

When used

Xdc-Authorization

Contains a safely-encoded XDC authorization

Response

User, preflight requests

Xdc-Channel

Contains a safely-encoded XDC channel certificate

Response

User, preflight requests

Xdc-Cookie

The short representation of an XDC cookie

Request

User, repeat requests

 

(similar to the standard Cookie header [2]).

  
 

May be replaced by the standard header if the

  
 

Domain attribute can be overloaded with the XDC name

  
 

and used included in requests (currently not supported)

  

Xdc-Info-Request

Indicates a XDC preflight request. Always set to true

Request

Preflight requests

Xdc-Max-Age

Indicates the maximum retention period for preflight information

Response

Preflight requests

Xdc-Options

Provides additional instructions for XDC processing.

Response

Preflight requests

 

Currently only the dns-max-age option is defined

  

Xdc-Response

Set to true to indicate a repeat request

Request

Repeat requests

Xdc-Set-Cookie

The long representation of an XDC cookie

Response

User, repeat requests

 

(similar to the standard Set-Cookie header [2]).

  
 

May be replaced by the standard header if

  
 

the Domain attribute can be overloaded with the XDC name

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