The problem isn't with the tag. The problem is that there are a number of questions that only tangentially relate to http
are tagged with HTTP.
We shouldn't use a new tag to solve a problem that can be solved with using the current tag appropriately.
I took just the front page of the newest http
questions, and here's what I found:
Out of 50 questions:
- 40 had nothing to do with the HTTP Protocol itself. Here's just one such example
- 5 were tangentially related to the HTTP protocol, but the tag could be dropped because the questions actually dealt with a language specific abstraction of HTTP (like the HttpWebRequest in .NET, for instance). Here's an example.
- 5 could legitimately have stayed tagged with the HTTP protocol, as they dealt with questions that were squarely about the protocol itself.
The problem isn't that we need another tag; the problem is that the current tag isn't being used properly. A tag cleanup is definitely in order.
This is just the most 50 recent uses. I can only imagine what page 296 looks like.