RE: More header compression comments



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gábor Molnár [mailto:gabor.molnar@sch.bme.hu]
> Sent: jeudi 5 septembre 2013 11:56
> To: Martin Thomson
> Cc: HTTP Working Group
> Subject: Re: More header compression comments
> 
> 2013/8/27 Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>:
> > I've been going through this, and it occurred that most cases for
> > header indexing use an arrangement where a 0 value indicates a
> > literal, and 1+ is an index.
> >
> > [a] So, why not start header table indexing at 1 and save the confusion.
> 
> This is exactly what came to my mind when reading the latest draft.
> AFAIK, the initial chromium header compression implementation had a bug
> related to this confusion.

I'm OK with this change: it will make the spec simpler and will have negligible impact on compression.

Hervé.

Received on Friday, 6 September 2013 14:48:05 UTC