- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:51:18 +0200
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2014-07-17 14:44, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <53C7C3CC.8080105@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes: > >> FWIW, I do support that we don't need 101, and that we might be able to >> do 100 better. >> >> However, that doesn't cover other cases of 1xx. Yes, I realize that >> there currently do not seem any, but I'm very unhappy to close an >> existing extension point without very good reasons. > > I understand your unhappiness, but invoke Gettys rules 1 & 3: > > 1. Do not add new functionality unless an implementor cannot complete > a real application without it. We're not talking about new functionality. > 3. The only thing worse than generalizing from one example is > generalizing from no examples at all. > > I'll be happy to look at any concrete proposals if and when they > appear, but anything we define in a vacuum would be widely unimplemented > and therefore probably not work at all. The concrete proposal is to handle 1xx messages in HTTP/2 exactly the same way as in HTTP/1.1. HTTP/2 will need code (and specification) to deal with 1xx one way or another, and I believe my proposal has the property of being both simple and consistent with 1.1. Best regards, Julian
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