- From: Vlad Krasnov <vlad@cloudflare.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 18:23:36 -0700
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> On Nov 2, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> What? > > HTTP/2 - at the layer Vlad is talking about - only knows about the > bytes that comprise a request or response. What Vlad proposes > requires that the HTTP/2 layer look at the Content-Encoding header > field, determine that it *ends* with a compatible value and only then > do things to feed data to the compressor. That's a massive > architectural upheaval. I know that it is not entirely "canonical" however even if implemented entirely at the protocol level, http/2 still has to know that no other content-encoding was used at the application layer. At least from nginx viewpoint this is very simple, but I did not really consider how difficult it might be to implement in FF.
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