- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:44:22 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- cc: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <53A84F41.9000501@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes: >On 2014-06-23 17:53, James M Snell wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >>> - Header field syntax is something people continue to struggle with; maybe >>> define how to use JSON in header fields to make things easier for new header >>> field definitions >> >> +1 ... but I would frame the problem differently: Existing header >> syntax is inefficient, inconsistent and incomplete at best. [...] >I'm looking for something that works across all HTTP versions, so binary >IMHO is out. As long as a loss-less conversion exists, that's needlessly strict. For instance Date: can trivially be converted to an integer and back without any loss of information. -- 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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