- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 11:11:32 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, mnot@mnot.net, phk@varnish-cache.org
- cc: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure@ietf.org, httpbis-chairs@ietf.org, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Tommy Pauly <tpauly@apple.com>
-------- In message <f606b7a2-be34-9d42-cb78-0ff46bb671a0@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes: >On 19.05.2020 07:13, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> ... >>> What's the motivation for "MUST omit values of boolean true" (in >>> parameters and dictionaries)? It seems to make the output rules more >>> complicated without a significant gain in encoding size. >> >> It allows some existing HTTP headers to be treated as structured for the= > purposes of serialisation. >> ... > >Well, the introduction states that redefining existing fields is a >non-goal... But it does not forbid people from realizing that a particular existing header can be parsed and serialized using SF infrastruture. But we do not redefine those headers to say that it is so. -- 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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