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  1. OMG Issue

HDATA — Intermediaries Consideration

  • Key: HDATA-25
  • Legacy Issue Number: 17380
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: HL7 ( Mr. Grahame Grieve)
  • Summary:

    The HTTP protocol may be routed through an HTTP proxy such as squid.
    Such proxies are transparent to the applications, though implementors
    should be alert to the effects of rogue caching.

    Interface engines may also be placed between the consumer and the
    provider; these differ from proxies because they actively alter the
    content and/or destination of the HTTP exchange and are not bound the
    rules that apply to HTTP proxies. Such agents are allowed, but must
    mark the http header to assist with troubleshooting.

    Any agent that modifies an HTTP request or Response content other than
    under the rules for HTTP proxie must add a stamp to the HTTP headers
    like this:

    request-modified-[identity]: [purpose]
    response-modified-[identity]: [purpose]

    The identity must a single token defined by the administrator of the
    agent that will sufficiently identify the agent in the context of use.
    The header must specify the agents purpose in modifying the content.
    End point systems must not use this header for any purpose; it's aim
    is to assist with system troubleshooting.

    ."

  • Reported: Hdata 1.0b1 — Sun, 20 May 2012 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — Hdata 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This concern is added as another General Consideration to section 6.1.2.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT