- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:55:41 +0200
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 02:41:19PM +0200, Mark Nottingham wrote: > Not stupid at all, but I am concerned about adding too much "magic"; if > implementations are doing too much on your behalf, issues will arise (see > above). You probably know that I hate magic as well, that's why I prefer to rely on what we have. For example, passing "connection:" with the new headers to optimize their eviction along non-compatible paths is doable. It's not 100% safe but doable. Ensuring that compatible actors replace the old version is doable as well because it would be a "MUST" in the spec and we know these actors don't exist yet. So all in all we can possibly do useful things. I just don't want to have a tens of headers being advertised in Connection nor having to add many extra headers for the sake of saving space and parsing time, because we know that it will add extra work that may sometimes offset the savings. Hence the idea to compact what can be compacted if we went down that route. Cheers, Willy
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