Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-httpbis-client-hints-03.txt

Hi Ilya,

On 13 Dec. 2016, at 12:22 pm, Ilya Grigorik <ilya@igvita.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> Ilya, will changing "save-data" to being comma-delimited cause great pain for implementation and deployment?
> 
> I'm still a bit confused about what we're trying to solve here.
> 
> The intent behind [1] was not to provide list semantics. Rather, we wanted to allow a modifier on the token - e.g. "on;skip-video", or some such. Similar to Key's "user-agent;substr=MSIE" and so on. As such, I'm not sure the whole list discussion applies?
> 
> Am I missing something obvious? :-)
> 
> [1] https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/168

I think that's the context that was missing here. The intent AIUI is not to allow more than one save-data token to appear at a time (in a list); rather, it's to allow tokens to carry additional context as extensions.

Given that, is there still a concern about compatibility with what Common Structure might define?


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Received on Tuesday, 13 December 2016 01:41:26 UTC