HTTP terminology

[Roedy Green]

Java URLConnection.setRequestProperty calls these "key" and "value".

for fields in the http header e.g.

User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en) Presto/2.2.15
Version/10.00

Is that what you call them?
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[Daniel Pitts]

Java URLConnection.setRequestProperty calls these "key" and "value".

for fields in the http header e.g.

User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en) Presto/2.2.15
Version/10.00

Is that what you call them?

I use Header "Name" or Header "Key" interchangeably. I use Header Value
exclusively.

I think I would have avoided calling Headers "Request Properties"
however. Although the reasoning is probably along the lines that
URLConnection supports more than just HTTP(S), so request properties
might mean different things depending on the request type.