Re: Support for gzip at the server #424 (Consensus Call) from Martin Thomson on 2014-03-18 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2014)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:36:50 -0700
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>, Daniel Sommermann <dcsommer@fb.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnVpyWiP90YzyCX+swSECEp+xE7yfbxfWWSt-4Oe1vzDFw@mail.gmail.com>

On 18 March 2014 11:25, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> However, just because there are concerns doesn't mean we can't mandate it.
> If we all agree that client->server gzip is desirable, then the spec should
> be clear about that. Be it in non-normative prose, with a "SHOULD" or even a
> "MUST" (which would be similar to the "MUST support chunked encoding" in
> 1.1).


A la, RFC 6119?

Received on Tuesday, 18 March 2014 18:37:17 UTC