- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:36:29 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Apr 26, 2014, at 12:00 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 26.04.2014 03:40, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> On 25 Apr 2014, at 5:13 pm, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> >>> On 25.04.2014 02:30, Mark Nottingham wrote: >>>> Re-visiting this; I still think we can close #424 with no action. Any disagreement? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>> >>> I got distracted by the other gzip discussion. >>> >>> I really still believe that we should try to improve the situation; just because we can't require it for all chains of intermediaries doesn't mean we shouldn't ask for support in origin servers... >> >> "ask" and "require" are very different things... what are you thinking of in terms of text? >> >> Cheers, > > "to allow compression of big request payloads, origin servers SHOULD support gzip content coding in request messages" I don't think that is appropriate. Content-Encoding is generally not governed by the server -- it is a characteristic of the representations, so it will be determined by the resource owner's desires and not by the protocol engine. An origin server cannot implement that SHOULD even if the developers wanted to, since it would interfere with method semantics. ....Roy
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