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terminology refactor: header

Open vinniefalco opened this issue 3 months ago • 0 comments

We use the term "message" to describe the start-line plus fields, and this is confusing because we also use "message" to describe the full request or response including the body. I propose the following, which we should discuss first:

  1. Repurpose the term "header" to mean start-line plus fields
  2. Always say "fields" instead of "headers" (never say "headers")
  3. Use "request header" to mean a request-line plus fields
  4. Use "response header" to mean a status-line plus fields
  5. Rename message_base to header

vinniefalco avatar Oct 12 '25 23:10 vinniefalco