Re: Stuck in a train -- reading HTTP/2 draft.

In message <CABkgnnUeS823DWFY+CdBaKF2GUzc4_QJoRf1RXVcqxgKhN-f7A@mail.gmail.com>
, Martin Thomson writes:

>>> page 57: query part
>>> -------------------
>>>
>>> The query part of the URI should get its own ":query" psuedo-field
>>> for reasons of othogonality and to reduce the amount of data typical
>>> load-balancers have to examine.
>
>I think that we discussed this and decided against it.  Happy to
>follow up, but I'd have thought that the gains would be marginal.

Was that discussion before or after HPACK ?

I would expect HPACKs efficiency to increase if the constant-ish
:path part were divorced from the dynamic-ish :query part ?

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Received on Wednesday, 18 June 2014 10:01:38 UTC