- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:06:07 +0000
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- cc: Jason Greene <jason.greene@redhat.com>, Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <CABkgnnVvVeakL5H5EWyhmueviUZL0Y83d_8kTL3WMeZtkhoS9A@mail.gmail.com> , Martin Thomson writes: >On 18 June 2014 12:19, Jason Greene <jason.greene@redhat.com> wrote: >>> Given that the Date header is hop-by-hop and not used for anything >>> relevant, why don't we just point at NTP and drop it entirely ? >> >> Pretty please! > >That change is specifically not in scope for HTTP/2, but now that we >basically done there, we can certainly discuss this. It's certainly >in scope for the working group though. Why wouldn't it be in scope ? Date is a hop-by-hop header, if it serves no use on a HTTP/2.0 to HTTP/2.0 hop, we can eliminate it, just like we eliminated the double CRNL after the headers, because it serves no use. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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