Re: Set-Cookie and Cookie Optimized Binary Encoding

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:11 PM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, indeed. I'm wondering if there's a reasonable balance we can support
> here... That is, provide for backwards compatibility for most but not all
> 1.1 features and optimize for the most commonly used bits. Restricting set
> cookie syntax could be one of those compromises.

We should try to optimize bridging between HTTP/1.* and HTTP/2.0, but
we should not penalize a pure HTTP/2.0 future in the process.  The
obvious thing to do is to provide an escape hatch for contents we
don't optimize and not try to optimize absolutely everything.

Nico
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Received on Sunday, 20 January 2013 01:28:34 UTC