Re: Design Issue: GZIP flag on DATA Frames

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 28 May 2013 06:22 UTC

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Speaking personally - 

I'm -1 on this. The semantics you talk about *are* a property of the content, and you're embedding them in the transport.



On 22/05/2013, at 2:21 AM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:

> https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/100
> 
> Currently the spec includes a requirement that all user-agents MUST
> support gzip.. specifically:
> 
>  User-agents MUST support gzip compression.
>  Regardless of the Accept-Encoding sent by
>  the user-agent, the server may always send
>  content encoded with gzip or deflate encoding.
> 
> If we're going to include this requirement, it makes more sense to do
> this at the framing layer rather than the HTTP semantic layer. We can
> do so easily by defining a GZIP flag on the DATA frame type. If set,
> the payload of the DATA frame is compressed.
> 
> Doing so largely eliminates the need for the
> accept-/transfer-/content-encoding mechanisms at the http semantic
> layer.
> 

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