- From: Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:16:55 +0200
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
You are welcome. From implementing a WAP gateway the server part seem to work as well, although the traffic was not as high as today's requirements. Interestingly there was also a multiplexing implemented in the layer below (Wireless Transaction Protocol working over UDP) and the gateway had to translate this to HTTP. Regards, Roland On 14.07.2012 07:44, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:36:05AM +0200, Roland Zink wrote: >> A similar binary encoding for HTTP headers is used in the WAP (Wireless >> Application Protocol). The goal there was to reduce the number of bytes >> so there are more optimization on size but skipping of values is a bit >> more difficult. If anybody is interested the full specification can be >> found at >> http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/wap/wap-230-wsp-20010705-a.pdf. >> The header encoding is in section 8.4. > Wow, very instructive, thanks Roland! Much more work has been done there > than what we proposed in our draft. And this one was implemented in many > ridiculously powered devices, which means that it's not that complicated > to implement. With a bit of refreshing, that could be used as a basis for > future encoding works. > > Regards, > Willy >
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