Re: Type codecs within hpack from Martin Thomson on 2013-08-23 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:11:05 -0700
To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnX4-uxddiGdLgh=NG0EkeMpKOaQZoR6C_go8XixxSCV1w@mail.gmail.com>

On 23 August 2013 14:58, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> But that makes translation to http/1 harder.  You'd have to know in advance
> that any given header is a http-date or number.

At the point you move to typed headers, I think that you need to
accept this possibility.  Solving the problem for dates specifically
still leaves the opaque type.

Received on Friday, 23 August 2013 22:11:32 UTC