Remove before publishing
Title and slug
An HTTP header page should have a title and slug of NameOfTheHTTPHeader. For example, the Cache-Control header has a title and slug of Cache-Control.
Top macros
There are four macro calls at the top of the template by default. You should update or delete them according to the advice below:
- {{draft()}} — this generates a Draft banner that indicates that the page is not yet complete, and should only be removed when the first draft of the page is completely finished. After it is ready to be published, you can remove this.
- {{SeeCompatTable}} — this generates a This is an experimental technology banner that indicates the technology is experimental). If the technology you are documenting is not experimental, you can remove this. If it is experimental, and the technology is hidden behind a pref in Firefox, you should also fill in an entry for it in the Experimental features in Firefox page.
- {{deprecated_header}} — this generates a Deprecated banner that indicates the technology is deprecated. If it isn't, then you can remove the macro call.
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{{httpsidebar}} — this generates the HTTP sidebar that every HTTP reference page has.
Tags
In an HTTP header element subpage, you need to include the following tags (see the Tags section at the bottom of the editor UI): HTTP, Reference, HTTP Headers, the name of the HTTP Header (e.g. Cache-Control), General Header/Caching/Entity Header or other header category as appropriate, Experimental (if the technology is experimental), and Deprecated (if it is deprecated).
Browser compatibility
To fill in the browser compat data, you first need to fill in an entry for the API into our Browser compat data repo — see our guide on how to do this. Note that for HTML elements, most of the work has already been done — you just need to check that an entry is available.
Once that is done, you can show the compat data for the method with a {{Compat()}} macro call.
Draft
This page is not complete.
This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
Deprecated
This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.
The summary paragraph — start by naming the http header and saying what it does. This should ideally be 1 or 2 short sentences.
| Header type | Include header category, e.g. General header |
|---|---|
| Forbidden header name | yes or no |
| CORS-safelisted response-header | yes or no |
Syntax
The directives are case-insensitive and have an optional argument, that can use both token and quoted-string syntax. Multiple directives are comma-separated (delete information as appropriate).
Fill in a syntax box, according to the guidance in our syntax sections article.
If the header has a lot of available directives, feel free to include multiple syntax boxes, subsections and explanations as appropriate.
Directives
directive1- Include a brief description of the directive and what it does here. Include one term and definition for each directive.
directive2- etc.
If the header has a lot of available directives, feel free to include multiple definition lists, subsections and explanations as appropriate.
Examples
Fill in a some examples that nicely show common use cases of the HTTP header.
my code block
And/or include a list of links to useful code samples that live elsewhere:
- x
- y
- z
Specifications
| Specification | Title |
|---|---|
| RFC RFCNumberWhereHeaderIsDefined | Title of RFC |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
No compatibility data found. Please contribute data for "path.to.feature.NameOfTheHeader" (depth: 1) to the MDN compatibility data repository.
See also
- Include list of
- other links related to
- this Element that might
- be useful