On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>wrote: > 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. > We're all here to try to do that, as far as I know. :) -=R > > -- > 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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