HTTP: The Definitive Guide

Get full access to HTTP: The Definitive Guide and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Name

X-Pad

Synopsis

This header is used to overcome a bug related to response header length in some browsers; it pads the response message headers with extra bytes to work around the bug.

Type

Extension general header

Basic Syntax

X-Pad: pad-text

Example

X-Pad: bogosity

Get HTTP: The Definitive Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now