Re: Extra Connection Support Proposal

> If the application layer wishes to provide hints that particular features
> should be avoided, then that would be fine - provided that the HTTP
> implementation is permitted to ignore the hint.  The same goes for 
> cacheing
> - it needs to be hints from the application, not control.
I don't mind if the wording is such that all the API level properties are 
treated as hints/suggestions for the underlying HTTP subsystems, that is 
fine. Letting the core systems have the final say seems appropriate. But 
without these hints a number of important capabilites of emerging web 
technologies are being severely hampered. XHR already has a lot of 
relatively low level capabilities including access to and modification of 
headers (which can be overriden by the underlying subsystems). At least 
hinting at expectations of long-lived responses and optimum pipeline 
orderings does not seem out of line with what XHR is.
Thanks,
Kris