- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 15:09:39 +0200
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Cc: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Kari hurtta <hurtta-ietf@elmme-mailer.org>, HTTP working group mailing list <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> On 3 Aug 2016, at 3:07 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > >> I said this privately to someone at the workshop, but my realization >> was that we currently have schema-aware parsing with extremely limited >> points of extension. A revised system that supports that doesn't need >> to be very complex. Even a single level map of string key to >> (optional) string value is more extensibility than we can sensibly >> defend. > > As with HPACK/huffman, I don't see the need to heurstically restict > the data model, I would rather precisely restrict its use for > individual headers. Keep in mind that we're not going to require new headers to use this thing; if their needs aren't met, they can do something else. Looking at recently minted headers, I'm still sharing Martin's inclination to keep it simple and flat. -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/
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