- From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:00:56 +0200
- To: Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:48, Jim Gettys wrote: > that it be shown to be significantly more compact than HTTP It is worth pointing out that saving bytes is one goal; saving code complexity is another significant goal. Tight binary coding with few options is much easier to parse than a lenient text-based protocol on an 8-bit processor with 48 KiB of flash. That said, whether the result of such an effort still is HTTP is the interesting question. Gruesse, Carsten
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