Re: Header Serialization Discussion

["Adrien W. de Croy" <[e-mail]>]

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From: "James M Snell" <[e-mail]>
>On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:28 AM, RUELLAN Herve
><[e-mail]> wrote:
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>>[snip]
>>>
>>>    - The true utility of the common prefix length mechanism is 
>>>questionable.
>>>  Aside from the potential security risks, I questioning just how 
>>>effective it's
>>>  going to be in practice. (What header fields do we expect to 
>>>actually use it in
>>>  practice?)
>>
>>  Common prefixes are very efficient for URLs: the paths often share 
>>some common part at their beginnings. They are also useful for other 
>>type of data such a date and integers, but these could be optimized 
>>using typed codecs.
>>
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>I generally prefer the typed codecs for dates and integers. I'm
>struggling to see what, beyond URLs, the prefixes will be useful for,
>really. I mean, I get the theory, I understand their use, but I'm just
>not convinced how often it will be practical outside of the request
>URI.

Referer as well



Adrien

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