- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:11:30 +0000
- To: K.Morgan@iaea.org
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org, roland@zinks.de, derhoermi@gmx.net, C.Brunhuber@iaea.org
In message <0356EBBE092D394F9291DA01E8D28EC20100F3F0D8@sem002pd.sg.iaea.org>, K.Morgan@iaea.org wr ites: >> If your goal is to make HTTP the protocol that can do *everything*, then >>you are going to get a protocol which is good for nothing. > >Not our goal at all. _We just want to make sure HTTP/2 doesn't >lock out something you can >already do with HTTP/1.1. So actually yes, that is your goal... HTTP/1 is an incredibly messy protocol, and it is being abused for all sorts of purposes, and having a goal of carrying all abuses forward, no matter how stupid or pointless. And I think that is a very stupid goal. If we are not willing to cut off some of thos abuses, in exchange for clarity and simplicity, HTTP/2.0 ain't going to be an improvement. -- 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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