Re: New Version Notification - draft-ietf-httpbis-header-compression-12.txt

The list of headers used to create the static table was created at the client side. This explains why the Proxy-Auth is in the table.

Hervé

On 02/17/2015 04:38 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2015-02-17 15:55, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> >
> > A new version (-12) has been submitted for
> > draft-ietf-httpbis-header-compression:
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-compression-12.txt
> >
> >
> >
> > The IETF datatracker page for this Internet-Draft is:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-compression/
> >
> > Diff from previous version:
> > http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-httpbis-header-compression-12
> >
> > Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of
> > submission
> > until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.
> >
> > IETF Secretariat.
>
> So this now says:
>
> >    The static table was created from the most frequent header fields
> >    used by popular web sites, with the addition of HTTP/2-specific
> >    pseudo-header fields (see Section 8.1.2.1 of [HTTP2]).  For header
> >    fields with a few frequent values, an entry was added for each of
> >    these frequent values.  For other header fields, an entry was added
> >    with an empty value.
>
> Is that really true? How did Proxy-Auth* end up in the table then?
>
> It also leaves the reader to wonder why we did not remove header fields
> that can not appear in HTTP/2.
>
> I still believe we should actually *fix* the table.
>
> Best regards, Julian
>
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 17 February 2015 16:49:55 UTC