RE: Sticky headers and pipelining (was: Sticky header draft -- as an attachment)

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>From: 	Roy T. Fielding[SMTP:fielding@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU]
>Subject: 	Re: Sticky headers and pipelining (was: Sticky header draft -- as
>an attachment) 
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>BTW, while we are on the topic, I would prefer that the two unrelated
>concepts of sticky headers and short header names be in two separate
>drafts.  They should be evaluated independently.

I thought about that. I agree that they should be evaluated separately,
and can be adopted independently. However, if both are adopted, using
one mechanism (Connection: sticky) to say that you're using both saves
some bytes on the wire. Even if sticky headers are in use, the use of
abbreviations is not required, so a client that only wants to do sticky
is not forced to do extra work. The only drawback I can see is if the
client wants to do abbreviations but not do sticky headers. I don't know
if that is likely.

Unless there is some reason to believe that one will fly and the other
one won't, then I'd personally avoid the overhead of a separate draft.

Received on Thursday, 8 August 1996 09:54:17 UTC