Re: http/2 & hpack protocol review

On 5 May 2014 08:50, Erik Nygren <erik@nygren.org> wrote:
> I do think that the idea of a light-weight HTTP/2 profile may make sense.

This has been proposed, but it wasn't considered interesting enough to
specify.  See [1].

I'm not sure if anyone has attempted to build an HTTP/2 implementation
with some combination of minimal code size, processor usage, and
memory footprint.  As you point out here, it may be marginally more
work than HTTP/1.1, and some features may be too tempting to pass up.

HPACK with a table size of 0 is actually fairly simple to implement.
Though I'm not sure that it's significantly easier to handle than
HTTP/1.1, since the contents of the header fields are still
textual(*).

[1] tools.ietf.org/html/draft-montenegro-httpbis-http2-server-profiles

Received on Monday, 5 May 2014 16:51:10 UTC