Re: Straw Poll: Restore Header Table and Static Table Indices

[Jason Greene <[e-mail]>]

> On Oct 21, 2014, at 4:32 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> In message <[e-mail]>, Willy Tarreau writes:
> 
>> I would guess they should appear in the order above, though that's not
>> obvious to me. And I'm still sad at the idea of leaving many encoding
>> values unused (eg: static header values above 16). Thus, we'll typically
>> have 48 possible values out of 256 for the first byte that will never be
>> emitted just for the indexed headers alone, that's a 20% waste, 
> 
> If you are that worried about wasted compression opportunities, you
> should spend your time to get timestamps compressed to integers since
> that will save more bytes than you can ever do by tweaking the current
> HPACK in any way.

+Graham’s number

I am still surprised we aren’t doing this, as it would mean huge bandwidth and performance savings. I like the idea of an extension, which hopefully transitions to an official part of HTTP/3.

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Jason T. Greene
WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat