Header field name representation, was: Rechartering HTTPbis

On 2012-01-26 10:35, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> ...
> I find it pretty cumbersome to force everyone to support zlib, especially
> in environments where it provides no benefit (small requests/responses)
> and only adds CPU usage and latency. It's especially true on intermediary
> components which would have to decompress everything to be able to perform
> trivial actions such as decide what server to forward to. Using either pure
> binary header names or short forms would already be quite efficient.
> ...

What's a binary header name?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 26 January 2012 10:14:08 UTC