- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:08:22 +0000
- To: "Martin Nilsson" <nilsson@opera.com>
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
-------- In message <op.xloh3bziiw9drz@beryllium.bredbandsbolaget.se>, "Martin Nilsson" writes: >It's just such a big waste to build this nice, 8-bit clean tunnel [...] I can certainly understand and share that frustration. But there are two ways to exploit the 8-bit tunnel: End-to-end or using path compression. HPACK does the later with pretty good job on the latter as far as base64 is concerned, so we wouldn't gain much in efficiency for all the pain it would be to get PHP programmers to understand binary headers. -- 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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