Re: Editorial: ALTSVC HTTP/2 Frame.

> On 28 Jan 2015, at 7:39 pm, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-01-28 09:33, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> On 15 Jan 2015, at 5:24 pm, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2015-01-15 04:37, Martin Thomson wrote:
>>>> On 14 January 2015 at 17:52, Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com> wrote:
>>>>> Haven't looked at the changed text, but the maximum length of a FQDN is 255 octets...
>>>> 
>>>> Indeed it is.  But origin includes <scheme>://<fqdn>[:<port>].  A
>>>> 9-bit length would suffice...
>>> 
>>> Stop it. Let's not mix binary and text in the same frame. I'll add a "origin" parameter to the header field syntax.
>> 
>> I'm personally -0.5 about that; putting the origin in the header field syntax when it isn't useful in the header field's semantics is bound to cause confusion.
>> 
>> My .02 - decide on a generous bit length and we're done this one.
>> 
>> Cheers,
> 
> Having two different approaches in the same frame (binary and text) makes me shudder...

Well, the frame *is* binary; nothing's going to change that. And, the content *is* text -- likewise. The question is whether there's one text field or two...

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

Received on Wednesday, 28 January 2015 08:42:41 UTC