Re: h2#404 requiring gzip and/or deflate

No. Reverting to solely identity would be a huge step backwards.
On Feb 21, 2014 9:17 AM, "Martin Thomson" <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 February 2014 05:08, Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com> wrote:
> > I think what the http/2 text means to say is that an "Accept-Encoding:
> gzip,
> > deflate" request header is implicit in every request and the client
> needs to
> > be able to process responses with those encodings.
>
>
> Yes, that is the implication.  Even if you include "Accept-Encoding:
> rot13", you effectively get *either* "Accept-Encoding: rot13,
> identity, gzip, deflate" or "Accept-Encoding: rot13, identity, gzip".
> This is a change from 1.1, which implies "Accept-Encoding: rot13,
> identity" only.
>
> I had inferred the gzip+deflate, but Mark points out that this could
> also be interpreted as the latter.  Hence this thread requesting
> clarification.
>
> I hope that I'm not completely off-base on this.  No one wants to
> remove this entirely and revert to "identity" only, do they?
>
>