- From: Robert Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:12:46 -0500
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Kris Zyp" <kzyp@sitepen.com>, "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, public-webapi@w3.org
On Feb 19, 2008 1:50 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > > Probably the appropriate forum to make this proposal would be the IETF > HTTP Working Group. I'll join the appropriate mailing list if others > are interested in pursuing it there. In advance of this, we could > agree by convention on an unofficial "Connection: x-pipeline" value to > see how well this proposal works in practice. > > Thoughts? > It's a good idea, but some proxies forward hop-by-hop headers. :( See <http://www.mnot.net/blog/2007/06/20/proxy_caching> FWIW, the next Firefox beta will have pipelining enabled for https. I won't be surprised if we hit bad bugs. Falling back to https in combination with your proposed connection token might be a fine idea. -- Robert Sayre "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
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