Re: [#150] Making certain settings mandatory from Eliot Lear on 2013-06-29 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2013)

From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 22:47:54 +0200
To: Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com>
CC: Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe.com>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <51CF47FA.7050508@cisco.com>

On 6/29/13 9:47 PM, Jeff Pinner wrote:
> So devil's advocate -- why make the mandatory during Upgrade?
>
> If the client is upgrading to HTTP/2.0 and doesn't send them, why
> can't we just assume that the client has accepted the default values?
>

Because defaults can NEVER be changed.  Sometimes it's better to not
ever have them.

Received on Saturday, 29 June 2013 20:48:28 UTC