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Many header types are missing public constructors

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
api

Research direction

No source files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the public API and documentation for the Location and ETag types, then compare the other header types and the discussion in #40; done means the affected types have an agreed, usable public construction path.

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Description

Per SergioBenitez/Rocket#1067 I looked into reexporting typed headers from this crate, as they were reexported from hyper 0.10 in the past. But I quickly discovered that many headers apparently can't be constructed, because they have a single private field and nothing like a new or from method.

In particular I was trying to use Location and ETag, but given #40 and after looking at the docs it looks like many other header types don't have public constructors either. Am I misunderstanding the purpose of this crate or misreading a trait bound, or are these simply missing constructors that need to be implemented?

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