Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-latest, 8.1.2.1 Request Header Fields | Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-latest, 8.1.2.1 Request Header Fields | Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-latest, 5.5 Extending HTTP/2

On Jul 25, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 2014-07-25 19:22, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <53D2597B.7020909@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes:
>>> On 2014-07-25 06:59, Michael Sweet wrote:
>>>> HTTP Upgrade
>>> 
>>> And it couldn't have been "OPTIONS /"?
>>> 
>>> There's nothing else in HTTP/1.1 that requires as many exceptions and
>>> special cases as the asterisk form... Cost/benefit etc.
>> 
>> Drop OPTIONS from HTTP/2, it's not worth the trouble.
> 
> That would break CORS and some uses of WebDAV.
> 
> OPTIONS is not the problem, "*" is.

Neither one is a problem (and HEAD has far more special cases than *).
Cruft is crufty, usually by necessity.

....Roy

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