Re: Straw Poll: Restore Header Table and Static Table Indices

Yep. Thanks for being clearer than me. Willy. I didn't mean flipping
back as reintroducing the reference set. I'm actually quite happy
that's gone as a developer: it led to deleting some gnarly things.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 09:22:21PM -0700, Adrian Cole wrote:
>> If we agree that api stuff does in fact use a lot of non-standard
>> headers, and we believe flipping back doesn't maim normal web, could
>> that be a strong enough case to revert?
>
> Please to be clear, noone suggests to flip back to what we previously
> had, there's no question about reintroducing the reference set whose
> removal has considerably simplified developers' experience. The idea
> is just to ensure that *at least* some dynamic headers can be encoded
> with a single byte so that all the future headers that are not part of
> the static set are not penalized so much as what Jeff observes.
>
> Regards,
> Willy
>

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