- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 16:25:31 +1100
- To: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 1 Feb 2014, at 4:27 am, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote: > On 1/02/2014 6:13 a.m., Adrian Cole wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> HPACK allows the sender to decide whether or not to encode with huffman. >> When, in your opinion, would the sender choose not to? >> > > 1) debugging some other part of the protocol. > > 2) sender device wants to save on CPU and has lots of bandwidth available. > > 3) using some other future encoding that is better than huffman. If that happens, we’d need to version the protocol (at least, as things currently sit), so this isn’t really a motivation for being able to turn it off. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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