Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-18
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Thu, 07 May 2020 07:28 UTC
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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-18
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On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 06:47:15AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > -------- > In message <977F061C-A4BB-413B-B26C-51C7A694FA74@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham writes: > > >Perhaps in full context: > > > >~~~ > >For example: > > > > Example-ScaledInt: 4503; suffix=3DM > > > >Could be used to indicate a scaled value; in this case, 4,503,000,000, = > >if the `M` suffix parameter is specified to denote multiplying the = > >integer by 1,000,000. > >~~~ > > > >Thoughts? > > Would people connect that to the 15 digit limitation ? I really don't see what we're trying to save above. I mean, it requires more code to encode the numbers, more bytes on the wire in every single case, and more code on the decoding side, plus all the absurd or difficult error cases that have to be carefully dealt with. Sending "4503000000" is enough to always represent the same thing and being trivial to check in length and to parse. Amusingly the proposed representation with this "suffix=3DM" could even possibly trigger some artefacts becoming "suffix=M" when accidentely fed through a MIME-aware decoder seeing "=3D" and turning it to "=", but that's just a side detail which still indicates that making things difficult to decode can only result in more mistakes. Just my two cents, Willy
- [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-h… David Schinazi via Datatracker
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… Mark Nottingham
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… David Schinazi
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… David Schinazi
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… Mark Nottingham
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… Mark Nottingham
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… Willy Tarreau
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… Mark Nottingham
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… Ian Clelland
- Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ie… Alissa Cooper