Re: Comments (Part 3) on HTTP I-D Rev 05 (#'s 116, 134, 135,

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen:
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>At 15:34 11/16/98 -0800, Jim Gettys wrote:
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>>Basically, the q-values are used as binary values. Understanding deflate
>>with -.65 doesn't make a lot of sense to me."
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>Just to clear out any confusion, the dash is not a minus - it's a typo.

I believe the reason for allowing q values like 0.65 here is that it
allows a client to express a preference for a particular hop-level
compression algorithm. E.g.

 TE: chunked, compress;q=0.65, gzip;q=0.8

would mean that gzip compression is preferred over compress-style
compression.

>
>Henrik

Koen.