Is it ok to transmit an IV as a custom HTTP header? Considering an AES OFB encryption algorithm, suppose that I'm sending a message over HTTP (not HTTPS) and my message body contains the cyphertext. I'd like to know if transmitting a random initialization vector as a custom HTTP header is considered a bad practice, having into account that it's conventionally appended to the beginning of the cyphertext.
From a cryptographic standpoint, it doesn't matter how you transmit the IV. You can send it as a header, in the message body, as the path in the request method, or even the URG pointers in a few TCP packets. From the perspective of the encryption process itself, it doesn't care how it got the IV, no matter how silly the transmission method used, as long as it got it in the end.

From a web development standpoint, it's bad practice to include data that is applicable to the payload in the headers. Sending an IV in a custom HTTP header slightly increases overhead when compared to simply prepending it to the ciphertext and sending it all. You don't even need an elaborate serialization format. Just prepend the fixed-size IV and call it a day. This has the additional benefit of not breaking the HEAD method, which requests the HTTP headers but not body. I can't think of any reason why you could possibly want the IV sans ciphertext.