- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:23:36 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <20160718121443.GA26998@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes: >I'd strongly prefer an efficient binary encoding that would pass well over >H2 / H3 whatever, but still we know that H1 will exist for many years, >that applications deal with headers as text and we'll need a text-based >representation at some points along the chain. I 100% agree and that is why I think our focus should be on finding the binary encoding. We have well proven methods for turning binary into ascii, but the other way becomes a nightmare every single time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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