- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:30:35 +0000
- To: Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>
- cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe.com>
In message <CAP+FsNfBaUGyrynwkWtNA6u-7P43kr0xrs3JZgJ+KYKQKrwVCg@mail.gmail.com> , Roberto Peon writes: >> SPDY does nothing to address problems like User-Agent, Cookie, >> ASCII representation of timestamps, it just throws it all >> into deflate and hopes for the best. > >It is just a start. If we'd attempted all of that in the beginning I think >we'd have a failed effort by now. Which is why I applaud SPDY as a damn good prototype, which taught us a lot, for instance that shoving everything into deflate showed that it matters how big requests are, and that there are significant gains to be had. What we should do now is throw the prototype away, and design a serialization of HTTP which is as if not more efficient than deflate, and which is less hostile to HTTP routers less prone to DoS exploitation, and takes less memory footprint (code&data) to implement. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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