- From: Francesco Chemolli <kinkie@squid-cache.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 11:09:30 +0100
- To: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> Regarding "Priority=High": Currently cookies are often used on the critical > path, and these existing cookies don't have a "Priority" attribute. We can't > define a new spec that retroactively mandates that implementers have to add > the attribute, so I imagine we would probably want to define it so that "no > Priority" is as high as "High Priority." (Unless we're proposing to define a > new supe..uh..'more important' cookie.) So all the existing dead wood > remains, and the path of least resistance for implementers who want to > comply with the spec is: don't do anything. Thus it's not a valuable > addition. ..why? Cookie priorities are relative and anchored to an authority. It's up to the UA to define pruning strategies but I doubt the implementors would consider priority as an absolute value. The proposal mentions "Medium" as being the default. I see no harm in it. This said, I'm adding my voice to the chorus hoping for a new mechanism replacing cookies to be defined. Francesco
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