Re: Static Table Entries

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Fri, 08 August 2014 11:26 UTC

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In message <op.xj9tkewqiw9drz@uranium.oslo.osa>, "Martin Nilsson" writes:

>Just because it is frequent doesn't mean we should support it. I think  
>that the :status 400, :status 404 and :status 500 should go away. We don't  
>have to fail efficiently, and response headers are less interesting to  
>optimize than request headers.

"We don't have to fail efficiently" runs counter to everything I have
ever read, learned or experienced about high performance computing.

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