Re: Non-browser uses (was Re: disabling header compression) from Martin Thomson on 2013-12-14 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:39:27 -0800
To: Chris Burdess <dog@gnu.org>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnU=vis+VM2wH2ygNxAV_RhNt4C6Q5sS-wDZ-=SmVN9WCQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 13 December 2013 15:58, Chris Burdess <dog@gnu.org> wrote:
> True. Also the binary encoding has some as yet undefined flags that
> could be used to select a type of compression of the header value,
> allowing you to specify a compression algorithm best suited to the data
> on a header-by-header basis.

We explicitly decided not to do that.  See the other thread that I
think you started.

Received on Saturday, 14 December 2013 00:39:54 UTC