RE: Compressing HTTP headers

On Monday,07 July 2014 14:34, phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote:
> As far as I can see, no space has been set aside for versioning
> HPACK nor for using entirely different algorithms for compression ?
>
> I don't want to spend time on SETTINGS and IANA registry at this
> point, that can wait till it become srelevant, for now I would be
> happy if we can just reserve a field somewhere, demand its value
> be zero, and note that it is for future expansion of header compression.
>
> Can we please append a byte to the HEADERS frame for this purpose ?

+1

I would like to see part of the field set aside for experimental use.  (Currently the only way for experimenting with new compression algorithms is via an extension.)

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