- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:48:18 -0700
- To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Cc: Fred Akalin <akalin@google.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>, Patrick Pelletier <code@funwithsoftware.org>, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, IETF HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 13 September 2013 15:41, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote: > An alternative possible approach could build on the typed codec work.. > that is, use compact opaque binary values for user agent as an > alternative to the current string-based value. For those who need the > backwards compatibility, the legacy string values would still be > available and usable.. but we'd have a simple transition path for > something better. As it pertains to tracking, I don't see an opaque binary blob to have characteristics different from a string. It does make the identifier less useful for the aforementioned purposes, which leads me to conclude that something like that would be lose-lose.
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