- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:59:29 +0000
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <089DE71E-C5B4-41F7-AD23-4529A43ED04E@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri tes: ><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. It would be interesting if somebody with a setup and data could try to see how it affects compression. >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/ > > -- 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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