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Include information about client name and version when calling server API.

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by locating where clients make requests to the server API and where request metadata is defined. Review the linked Stack Overflow discussion and the proposed X-Client-Name and X-Client-Version headers; done means API calls identify the client and its version consistently.

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Description

As a service provider it is important to identify clients which consume an API and their version. Reason being, sometimes there are bad requests, buggy versions, deprecate old versions, etc.

A suggestion is to use X-Client-Name and X-Client-Version.

Similar to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17491730/identifying-the-version-of-a-client-web-app-during-http-requests

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