human-headers

HN user randomdrake and I threw together a "standard" for this a few months ago and put it up here: http://www.humanheaders.org/ and https://github.com/randomdrake/human-headers/ randomdrake actually built a few browser extensions that will read out the headers and show them to you if they exist, which is pretty cool.

Great point. With the goal being that this can run in your browser as you browse the web, would it be more expensive to make an additional entire HTTP request to a, possibly non-existent, humans.txt for every single domain? Or simply pass additional bytes along? In the discussion on github[1] I raised the suggestion of possibly having the browser extension pass a special accepts or requests header so that it's only passed for people who have the extension installed. Then a simple conditional would be used for the server configuration instead of a statement. Does that satisfy concerns with "bloat" or are there other considerations, do you think? [1] - https://github.com/randomdrake/human-headers/issues/1