- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:12:24 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <20120125064534.GE32580@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:
>That said, there are a number of other issues in HTTP/1.1 that we could get
>rid of when switching to a new protocol :
> - get rid of the Host header and only use absolute URIs
+1
> - get rid of content-length and only use transfer-coding (and get rid of
> 3 pages in the spec which explain how to determine a message's length)
Actually your remaining three ideas can be combined into one idea:
- Clearly split transport metadata from content metadata, for instance
by putting a blank line between them.
That removes the need for a Connection header to say which transport
metadata to strip.
I would add a new header that tells how many seconds the connection
can be idle before it is closed. A value of zero has same semantics
as "Connection: close" has today.
That split also avoids the need to even parse the content metadata
for purposes of transport.
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