Re: Backwards compatibility

Interesting - I knew this was not a new idea, but did not know about this draft.

Any idea why it did not catch on back then ? I could imagine at that time pipelining was not widely enough supported to make this interesting.

...Mark

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On Mar 31, 2012, at 3:06 AM, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
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> On 31/03/2012, at 3:03 AM, Mark Watson wrote:
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>> I was assuming you could avoid the head-of-line blocking with an extension that allows out-of-order responses.
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> That's been tried in the past; see:
>  http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-mogul-http-ooo-00.txt

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> Regards,
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> Mark Nottingham
> http://www.mnot.net/

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