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by esjr 2220 days ago
So no one has heard of RFC6648 ? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648
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> "…in practice the benefits [of the "X-" convention] have been outweighed by the costs associated with the leakage of unstandardized parameters into the standards space."

Honestly, prefixing silly, fun or extra headers with X- like in this scenario seems pretty harmless.