Re: JSON headers

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2016-07-12 09:10, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> ...
> Personally I hope we don't.
>
> I was fine with it as a way to write ABNF-like descriptions in future
> RFCs to make everyones custom headers have a more generic syntax that
> our parsers could handle easier.
>
> But using a textual representation on the wire for future improvements
> is something we should be looking at avoiding, not encouraging.
>
> HTTP/2 HPACK offers some new possibilities by adding integer encoding
> for header field-value that the recipient is not required to write in
> textual format before processing. Lets not throw that advantage away.

HPACK, as defined, does not allow it.

A future version might (requiring to bump up the protocol version).

One goal of a common syntax for field values of course is to later on 
take advantage of it, just the way you said.

Best regards, Julian