- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:26:20 +0000
- To: Wenbo Zhu <wenboz@google.com>
- cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <CAD3-0rMnWxOvLSqRMSOW52j4G1FZWz7uCRL45kc3A8s7nOpxzQ@mail.gmail.com>, Wenbo Zhu writes: >I'll ask about two more things: >1) being able to separate standard headers from user-defined metadata .. >now that we have a convention for "value" types Some of the standard headers could be redescribed with reference to this draft, and there may be an advantage to doing that as an exercise along the way. Not sure if such a redescription would deserve publication as more than an exemplary appendix. >2) a (simple) binary representation for the structure ... has it been >discussed? It is not obvious to me that there is much gain at this point. Obviously the binary objects could be transmitted len+bits instead of base64+HPACK, but as long as we do not redefine the Cookie header in terms of this draft, it may not be worth the time. >Limits are useful for standard headers.. Yes and also for headers in general. -- 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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