Human Headers
Dev tools
http headers
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score -0.36.
Idea: 1 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun idea and a nice concept
From 2 comments
Hmm, human headers. I like it.
Raphael on HNNice idea, there is always humans.txt (which a surprising number of sites have, try google for example). http://humanstxt.org/
RossM on HN
Objections
Extra headers on every request add bandwidth overhead
From 2 comments
At first, I liked this idea. It's an ego boost. But then I realized this extra HTTP header information is going out with every request, and really only serves to increase…
whileonebegin on HNTo me this shouldn't be a header. Why not create something like humans.txt? Better to do something you can opt into, instead of jamming an extra header on some guys poor cellular…
michaelmcmillan on HN
humans.txt already does this without header cost
From 2 comments
I'm with the others who mentioned humans.txt. No header overhead (little as it is), no need to have access to the web server (apache, nginx, etc) (how many professional devs are…
thebouv on HNTo me this shouldn't be a header. Why not create something like humans.txt? Better to do something you can opt into, instead of jamming an extra header on some guys poor cellular…
michaelmcmillan on HN
Information could simply go in the HTML or About page
From 2 comments
Why not put this information in the html? Then it's only available on one page.
coherentpony on HNWhat's wrong with putting this kind of information on the site's "About" page, which doesn't require any special browser extension to display?
greenyoda on HN
Requests
Use an opt-in mechanism such as a request header sent only by the extension
From 1 comment
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…
randomdrake on HN
Questions
Would a per-domain humans.txt fetch cost more than adding bytes to headers?
From 1 comment
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…
randomdrake on HN
Alternatives named
humans.txt
From 2 comments
Nice idea, there is always humans.txt (which a surprising number of sites have, try google for example). http://humanstxt.org/
RossM on HNI'm with the others who mentioned humans.txt. No header overhead (little as it is), no need to have access to the web server (apache, nginx, etc) (how many professional devs are…
thebouv on HN
Information in the HTML or the About page
From 2 comments
Why not put this information in the html? Then it's only available on one page.
coherentpony on HNWhat's wrong with putting this kind of information on the site's "About" page, which doesn't require any special browser extension to display?
greenyoda on HN