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
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