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Re: Restore Header Table and Static Table Indices

"Kulkarni, Saurabh" <sakulkar@akamai.com> Mon, 06 October 2014 18:39 UTC

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From: "Kulkarni, Saurabh" <sakulkar@akamai.com>
To: Nicholas Hurley <hurley@todesschaf.org>, Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:35:54 -0500
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Same here, -1 on this. Our implementation (Akamai server) is much simpler
now because of this.

- Saurabh

On 10/6/14, 11:30 AM, "Nicholas Hurley" <hurley@todesschaf.org> wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 6, 2014, at 08:02, Jeff Pinner wrote:
>> As request by Mark, I propose that the current HPACK draft be changed
>> such that Sec. 2.3.3 Index Address Space reads,
>> 
>> "Indices between 1 and the length of the dynamic table (inclusive)
>> refer to elements in the dynamic table.
>> 
>> Indices strictly greater than the length of the dynamic table refer to
>> elements in the static table. The length of the dynamic table is
>> subtracted from the index into the static table."
>> 
>> with the associated diagram updated. This reverts the change made
>> between draft -08 and -09 in the change log, "Exchanged header and
>> static table positions."
>> 
>
>
>I'm (still) a -1 on this. The change in 09 simplified both the spec and
>the code implementing the spec, as well as making the common case (for
>my users) more straightforward and efficient. I haven't seen anything
>that convinces me the proposal does anything except make the uncommon
>case (large amounts of custom header names) more efficient at the
>expense of the common case.
>-- 
>Peace,
>  -Nick
>

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