- From: Martin Nilsson <nilsson@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:00:36 +0200
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:07:59 +0200, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote: > > Huffman encoding applies only to String literals. This numeric is an > Integer Literal byte sequence. Ah, of course. That flips the size advantage to something like 5 bytes vs 9 bytes in worst case. > > Also, if you are going to signal a binary state (delta vs absolute > time) use a 1-bit flag, built into the value type code this wastes no > space. I wasn't actually thinking about encoding here, but different semantics, like the Retry-After header which both has a date and number as possible values, with different interpretations. /Martin Nilsson -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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