- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 18:48:31 +0000
- To: "Mark Delany" <s2y@romeo.emu.st>
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <20130713182902.69380.qmail@f5-external.bushwire.net>, "Mark Delany" writes: > Client -> sessionid -> Edge --sessionid+Cookies--> origin > | > ^ > | > | Cookie Jar | > | > ^ > | > Client <- sessionid <- Edge <--New Cookies-- origin Yes, that's the obvious backwards compatibility design, except that for "Edge" you might often just read "apache" or "ngnix". >The benefit being that you achieve perfect cookie compression on >your external links without inventing a fancy compression system. Good way to express it. >The argument being that the big guys get the most benefit, ergo they >should bear the cost? It could actually be interesting if somebody would go through their HTTP/1.1 traffic and estimate how much bandwidth would be saved. -- 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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