Re: Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpbis-early-hints-04: (with COMMENT)

2017-08-04 13:27 GMT+09:00 Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:08:59PM +1000, Martin Thomson wrote:
>> On 4 August 2017 at 14:01, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
>> > Hi Kazuho,
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 12:49:13PM +0900, Kazuho Oku wrote:
>> >> Eric, Martin, Willy, thank you for your suggestions.
>> >>
>> >> I agree that the original text was incorrect in the limitation of what
>> >> can be pushed, and also that the text was confusing.
>> >>
>> >> I've filed a PR (https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/pull/375)
>> >> that tries to address the issue, based on Martin's suggestions (thank
>> >> you for the text!).
>> >>
>> >> Please let me know what you think.
>> >
>> > I'd reformulate this part :
>> >
>> >   "especially if a client is associated with a large amount of cache storage."
>> >
>> > more like this :
>> >
>> >   "especially if for clients equipped with caching."
>> >
>> > Otherwise it makes one think that Link header consumes a large amount of
>> > space while it's 1) not true and 2) only a hint so it solely depends on
>> > what the client does.
>>
>> I think that Willy's suggestion is good.  I'm also not sure about "and
>> consumes less bandwidth", which is only true in the case where the
>> client doesn't want the resource.
>
> Let's use "and may consume less bandwith", which is true when it can retrieve
> the objects from a cache :-)

Martin, Willy,

Thank you for your suggestions.

Updated the text to "might consume less bandwidth" to avoid confusion
(and to avoid lower-case "may").

> willy



-- 
Kazuho Oku

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