- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 15:09:53 -0700
- To: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 13 April 2014 02:04, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
> The character set of cookies seems odd. Is '(' allowed without quoting?
> And why is there '>' but not '<'?
I ripped the list of characters from RFC 6265. I thought that this
was odd, but I'm fairly certain that the folks writing this spec knew
what they were doing. It's entirely possible that I introduced an
error when transcribing, but that one is (I think) right.
> Is the idea to choose encoding of random octet strings so that it is of
> minimal size after Huffman?
That's right. The idea is to favour '0' or '1', which have four bit
encodings, over symbols with longer encodings.
Received on Sunday, 13 April 2014 22:10:21 UTC