- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:25:27 -0700
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- 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>
On 18 June 2014 13:17, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > In that case we should transfer the time as a POSIX time_t in the > HEADERS frame. Wasting time huffman encoding dates and still > using 24 bytes where 8 would be plenty is just plain stupid. Yeah, that was discussed and rejected, though not permanently. I think that James worked out that 5 bytes was enough in the short term with a little epoch tweaking. And yes, we are plain stupid. Think of the cost of parsing that stuff as opposed to doing ntohl().
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