Re: requestEnd property for resource timing

ok. that makes sense.

Am Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2012 um 19:05 schrieb Philippe Le Hegaret:

> On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 23:05 +0200, Matthias Jakel wrote:
> > i have read the resource timing draft and i suggest to add the
> > "requestEnd" attribute to the PerformanceEntry interface to be able to
> > calculate the time the server needs to respond with the first byte. If
> > you use the chrome developer tools and use the network tab you can see
> > the "waiting" time which you could calculate from requestEnd and
> > responseStart attributes. without the requestEnd attribute calculating
> > the waiting time seems not to be possible.
> > 
> 
> 
> I believe the reason not to have it is similar to the reason we don't
> have one in Navigation Timing:
> [[
> This interface does not include an attribute to represent the completion
> of sending the request, e.g., requestEnd.
> 
> * Completion of sending the request from the user agent does not
> always indicate the corresponding completion time in the network
> transport, which brings most of the benefit of having such an
> attribute.
> * Some user agents have high cost to determine the actual
> completion time of sending the request due to the HTTP layer
> encapsulation.
> ]]
> http://www.w3.org/TR/navigation-timing/#sec-navigation-timing-interface
> 
> Philippe