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Re: JSON headers - No: CBOR headers

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Wed, 13 July 2016 08:02 UTC

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In message <CABkgnnWtXiac_E1X-ztYJMNQVzrVyPZBCvWHtmX=ksYvgU=4ag@mail.gmail.com>
, Martin Thomson writes:

>FWIW, my dislike of CBOR is strong, but I've been warming to this
>notion. But I would suggest that we NOT base{64,85} anything.  HTTP/2
>carries octets very nicely, the only catch being 0x00, which we can
>finagle around.

We would use native CBOR in HTTP/2.

base{64|85} is only to shoe-horn CBOR into HTTP/1

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