hpack huffman codes

Regarding the process to validate the current hpack huffman codes against  
a large set of real headers, I think there is a risk that we'll paint  
ourselves into a corner dictated by how HTTP/1 looks like. As pointed out,  
a lot of base64 or hex encoded headers greatly benefits from huffman  
encoding. However, if we can carry binary data there is no point in having  
the data encoded in the first place, and not something to train the code  
table for. These headers will change over time, because even if they are  
taken into consideration for the huffman table, it is still more space  
efficient to not encode them. The code lengths for the characters of the  
other headers might suffer though.

/Martin Nilsson

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Received on Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:45:30 UTC