Re: Support for gzip at the server #424

On 15/03/2014 10:11 a.m., Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2014-03-14 18:06, Patrick McManus wrote:
>> receiving chunked requests is not supported with a high enough certainty
>> that anyone yet wants to send them in a generic web context. (apps that
>> know their server's capabilities apriori are a different story). HTTP/2
>> negotiation at first seems to make that easier, but supporting easy
>> gatewaying back to http/1.0 makes it hard again :(
> 
> Is gatewaying to *1.0* a goal at all?
> 
> If HTTP/2 is not the right moment to get over 1.0 limitations, when is
> it then?


Good point.

Any of the client UA people here have stats on how widespread 1.0
servers and proxies still are?

Amos

Received on Friday, 14 March 2014 22:08:34 UTC