Re: pipelining vs. deferred content from Roy T. Fielding on 1997-04-01 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 1997)

From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:43:58 -0800
To: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <9703312044.aa08880@paris.ics.uci.edu>

It is a hell of a lot easier to just define a multiplexing wrapper
for HTTP/1.x messages and use the Upgrade header field to initiate
the wrapper on the first (normal) request.  Performing contortions
within the scope HTTP/1.x is a waste of energy, since the result is
no more compatible with HTTP/1.x than just doing it the right way.

.....Roy

Received on Monday, 31 March 1997 20:46:58 UTC