- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:03:14 +0000
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <3539.1403097096@critter.freebsd.dk>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: >In message <CAH_y2NHPqSizPrST8Ag+hr3d6FpVtL=S+PmEaHfitGfaWroFgw@mail.gmail.com> >, Greg Wilkins writes: > >>.... and while we are splitting headers, could we also split the >>Date header into :date and :time. Currently reencoding the date header is >>the largest part of all the header blocks I'm sending (see example below): > >Given that the Date header is hop-by-hop and not used for anything >relevant, why don't we just point at NTP and drop it entirely ? OK, so I admit it, I'm a data-nerd... I ran a full year of Date: headers through HPACK's Huffman table. December compresses 2.6% better than June and July. December is 1.5% better than August. Saturdays are 1.6% better than Wednesdays Saturday 20th december is 5.4% better than Wednesday 18th of june. And yes, I still think we should just drop the Date header in HTTP/2.0 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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