- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:50:56 -0400
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
<https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/556> I’m not hearing anyone else express interest in this. Comments? Unless there’s a clamour of support soon, I’m inclined to close with no action. Cheers, On 12 Jul 2014, at 3:19 am, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > Some time ago I proposed and argued that :query should be split out > from :path and as I perceived it, there were a lot of people nodding > on that. > > I don't want to inject it right now, we have plenty of balls in the > air, but can I get you top open an issue for it, so we don't forget ? > > (Some of) the arguments for :query: > > Load balancers and other "triage" proxies seldom if ever > look at the :query part to determine handling, splitting > this field out of :path means they don't have as much data > to run through the decompressor to make their decisions. > > Semantically :path is much more static than :query is, which > means that :path can be compressed by back-reference, whereas > :query almost always will need huffman coding. > > -- > 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. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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