- From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 14:18:10 +1000
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On Thu, Aug 5, 2021, at 12:38, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Given what you said about Brotli, it seems that it should be generic, > though it's not certain that such an argument easily applies to all > algorithms. I would avoid making this truly generic, but there is value in establishing a convention. If brotli wants to use the same concept, but set w=18 to mean something else, that's probably OK. What the convention will mean is that you can build software that knows that there is a w parameter and that Accept-Encoding: foo;w=n is an acceptable match for Content-Encoding: foo;w=m for any m <= n. That is generally applicable logic, even if it has to be applied on a per-format basis. (It can't be truly generic as identity;w=3 means nothing, there are other content-codings for which w would be meaningless, and we haven't defined gzip;w=4.)
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