- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 01:12:25 -0800
- To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Luig said:
> One thing that I'd like to see in the protocol is a request identifier
> in the response headers, that would allow to match responses with
> requests.
>
> This would have many applications, such as enable a client to send
> a batch of requests to a server, and receive the responses out of
> order (in order to minimize the overall response time). Ultimately,
> this would even allow to separate requests and responses, or (in
> many cases) use a connectionless transport for HTTP.
>
> Has this subject been discussed before ?
Yes, but it was decided that such issues were beyond the scope of
HTTP/1.x and better left to HTTP/2.0. The reason being that it would
take the same time to explore those issues in HTTP/1.x as it would
to make them obsolete with HTTP/2.0 (where multiple interleaved
requests are possible).
...Roy T. Fielding
Department of Information & Computer Science (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3425 fax:+1(714)824-4056
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/
Received on Saturday, 2 December 1995 01:29:01 UTC