- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:28:51 +0100
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Cc: Cory Benfield <cory@lukasa.co.uk>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 04:25:03PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > -------- > In message <20200319161130.GA19209@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes: > >On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 03:53:32PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >> We could make it explictly fuzzy, by definting it as kilobytes rounded down ? > > > >I think it's an excellent idea, which even goes in the direction of > >reducing the on-wire bytes. And given todays connections speeds, if we > >use it only for progress bars it could even represent megabytes rounded > >to the nearest. Less than 0.5 will usually not take more than a few > >seconds and not deserve showing an accurate progress bar. > > I thought about that, but I know of applications where traffic is sorted > in "small", "medium" and "huge", where "small" is significantly less than > a megabyte, so I think the units should in the kilobytes rather than > megabytes range. Just to throw a number out there: Smaller than 32k. I'm fine with this anyway. Willy
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