- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 01:56:58 +0100
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
* Martin Thomson wrote: >Discussion offline leads me to conclude that doing this would be bad idea. > >The basic problem is with 2->1.1 translation at intermediaries. While >the HTTP/2 request might include a Content-Length, the gateway is >going to be forced to decompress and buffer the entire request body >before forwarding to a 1.1 server. > >This doesn't seem like a good outcome. Maybe this is something to >defer to the version of HTTP/x that ships when most of the world is >already using HTTP/2. I am not really following what this thread is about. HTTP/1.1 does not (de jure) need Content-Length anywhere, requests and responses can both be compressed and chunked. Why does that not matter here? -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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