Re: Straw Poll: Restore Header Table and Static Table Indices

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In message <20141021092505.GA30397@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:

>I would guess they should appear in the order above, though that's not
>obvious to me. And I'm still sad at the idea of leaving many encoding
>values unused (eg: static header values above 16). Thus, we'll typically
>have 48 possible values out of 256 for the first byte that will never be
>emitted just for the indexed headers alone, that's a 20% waste, 

If you are that worried about wasted compression opportunities, you
should spend your time to get timestamps compressed to integers since
that will save more bytes than you can ever do by tweaking the current
HPACK in any way.

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Received on Tuesday, 21 October 2014 09:33:20 UTC