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Re: JSON headers - No: CBOR headers

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Tue, 12 July 2016 23:58 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:53:02 +1000
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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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.

On 12 July 2016 at 18:22, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> CBOR [...] includes information that is surplus to (our) requirements

Here you have identified the core challenge, and the biggest weakness of CBOR.

Apologies for the mangled quoting, but I think that it's a very
important point to make.

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