Re: #428 Accept-Language ordering for identical qvalues

On 13 February 2013 07:59, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, considering that the http/2 discussion has already touched on
> the introduction of stateful compression, a potential switch to
> binary-header values, elimination of various elements such as response
> status-text and the host header, and so on, a discussion of
> eliminating conneg wouldn't be too extreme :-) ... The one thing to
> consider is that it ought to be at least possible to deprecate conneg
> without removing it entirely. We'll need to keep the mechanism around
> for http/1 interop and passthrough but we can say instruct developers
> that conneg ought to be avoided and we can discuss and highlight the
> appropriate alternatives.

Dropping those other things is largely possible because they are
either invalid, or are being replaced by an analogue.  I think it
unlikely that conneg can be safely dropped.  There are just too many
people using it.

Received on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 18:40:20 UTC