Re: Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpbis-early-hints-04: (with COMMENT)

On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:08:59PM +1000, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 4 August 2017 at 14:01, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
> > Hi Kazuho,
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 12:49:13PM +0900, Kazuho Oku wrote:
> >> Eric, Martin, Willy, thank you for your suggestions.
> >>
> >> I agree that the original text was incorrect in the limitation of what
> >> can be pushed, and also that the text was confusing.
> >>
> >> I've filed a PR (https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/pull/375)
> >> that tries to address the issue, based on Martin's suggestions (thank
> >> you for the text!).
> >>
> >> Please let me know what you think.
> >
> > I'd reformulate this part :
> >
> >   "especially if a client is associated with a large amount of cache storage."
> >
> > more like this :
> >
> >   "especially if for clients equipped with caching."
> >
> > Otherwise it makes one think that Link header consumes a large amount of
> > space while it's 1) not true and 2) only a hint so it solely depends on
> > what the client does.
> 
> I think that Willy's suggestion is good.  I'm also not sure about "and
> consumes less bandwidth", which is only true in the case where the
> client doesn't want the resource.

Let's use "and may consume less bandwith", which is true when it can retrieve
the objects from a cache :-)

willy

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