Re: Set-Cookie and Cookie Optimized Binary Encoding from Nico Williams on 2013-01-20 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2013)

From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:42:30 -0600
To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAK3OfOiG9fiky6OGC5O7Rr1HK7hq4uKyO9dOGY5Y4-hSqzu-2A@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:31 PM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Part of that escape hatch ought to be a bit in the encoded header that
> indicates a binary or text value. If it's text, then the 1.1 format is used.
> If it's binary, the optimized format is used and we get a closest we can get
> compromise on the translation from one to the other.

Exactly.

Received on Sunday, 20 January 2013 01:42:54 UTC