Re: Ascii-based SPDY "compression" idea

Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com> Sun, 01 April 2012 21:59 UTC

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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:58:00 -0400
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From: Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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Resent-Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:58:37 +0000

Hi Willy,

Thanks for sending this. A lot of good stuff in here -- removal of
redundant headers, binary names and lengths is great.

I'll post comments after a closer reading.

Thanks,

Peter

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 08:14:35PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > You should then take a look at what is proposed in our draft here, as
> it's more
> > or less what you're describing, with binary-encoded header field names
> in order
> > to save more space (stop sending "if-modified-since" for instance) :
> >
> >   http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tarreau-httpbis-network-friendly-00
>
> BTW I'm realizing that the slides are probably easier to read than the
> draft :
>
>   http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/83/slides/slides-83-httpbis-0.pdf
>
> Willy
>
>