- From: Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:47:09 -0700
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Cory Benfield <cory@lukasa.co.uk>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> For some sets of data. The samples we have are for browsing and only > for very short sessions. For APIs, server-to-server, > XmlHTTPRequest-heavy pages, and similar, my understanding is that a > reference set would be a significant improvement. I believe that the > reference set would have represented a significant improvement in the > applications I was building when I was at Microsoft. Sadly, I can't > run the numbers to support this claim. I am not suggesting we remove the header table, so you can still encode header fields using the "indexed representation." Yes it is less efficient than requiring 0 bytes, but in most cases you should be abel to get away with encoding it in 1 or 2 bytes.
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