Re: Do we kill the "Host:" header in HTTP/2 ?

Dropping the host header will inflate the size of bytes on the wire, to the
detriment of latency.

I haven't yet heard of a real performance advantage for dropping it. Is
there one?

-=R


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>wrote:

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> 2Mquzo6B1u13WuFNKemW6hoyDOF82RWXg8A@mail.gmail.com>, Ted Hardie writes:
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> >In retrospect, it
> >is clear that we shouldn't have looked at the current installed
> >base--we should have looked at what we expected eventual use would be.
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> A mistake this WG seems hell-bent on repeating with HTTP2 in my view...
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