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diff --git a/files/ar/glossary/forbidden_header_name/index.html b/files/ar/glossary/forbidden_header_name/index.html deleted file mode 100644 index 12776e896f..0000000000 --- a/files/ar/glossary/forbidden_header_name/index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Forbidden header name -slug: Glossary/Forbidden_header_name -translation_of: Glossary/Forbidden_header_name ---- -<p>A <dfn>forbidden header name</dfn> is the name of any <a href="/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers">HTTP header</a> that cannot be modified programmatically; specifically, an HTTP <strong>request</strong> header name (in contrast with a {{Glossary("Forbidden response header name")}}).</p> - -<p>Modifying such headers is forbidden because the user agent retains full control over them. Names starting with `<code title="">Sec-</code>` are reserved for creating new headers safe from {{glossary("API","APIs")}} using <a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API">Fetch</a> that grant developers control over headers, such as {{domxref("XMLHttpRequest")}}.</p> - -<p>Forbidden header names start with <code>Proxy-</code> or <code>Sec-</code>, or are one of the following names:</p> - -<ul class="brief"> - <li><code title="">Accept-Charset</code></li> - <li><code title="">Accept-Encoding</code></li> - <li><code title="">Access-Control-Request-Headers</code></li> - <li><code title="">Access-Control-Request-Method</code></li> - <li><code title="">Connection</code></li> - <li><code title="">Content-Length</code></li> - <li><code title="">Cookie</code></li> - <li><code title="">Cookie2</code></li> - <li><code title="">Date</code></li> - <li><code title="">DNT</code></li> - <li><code title="">Expect</code></li> - <li><code title="">Feature-Policy</code></li> - <li><code title="">Host</code></li> - <li><code title="">Keep-Alive</code></li> - <li><code title="http-origin">Origin</code></li> - <li><code title="http-origin">Proxy-</code></li> - <li><code title="http-origin">Sec-</code></li> - <li><code title="">Referer</code></li> - <li><code title="">TE</code></li> - <li><code title="">Trailer</code></li> - <li><code title="">Transfer-Encoding</code></li> - <li><code title="">Upgrade</code></li> - <li><code title="">Via</code></li> -</ul> - -<div class="note"> -<p><strong>Note</strong>: The <code>User-Agent</code> header is no longer forbidden, <a href="https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#terminology-headers">as per spec</a> — see forbidden header name list (this was implemented in Firefox 43) — it can now be set in a Fetch <a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/Headers">Headers</a> object, or via XHR <a href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest#setRequestHeader%28%29">setRequestHeader()</a>. However, Chrome will silently drop the header from Fetch requests (see <a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=571722">Chromium bug 571722</a>).</p> -</div> - -<section class="Quick_links" id="Quick_Links"> -<ol> - <li><a href="/en-US/docs/Glossary">MDN Web Docs Glossary</a> - - <ol> - <li>{{Glossary("Forbidden response header name")}}</li> - </ol> - </li> -</ol> -</section> |