Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-http-structure-retrofit-00.txt

Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Thu, 07 October 2021 11:16 UTC

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Mark Nottingham writes:

> FYI. 
>
> This was previously hidden in the binary structured fields draft, but it 
> seems potentially useful for other purposes -- e.g., exposing more 
> fields in a structure-oriented API for HTTP (e.g., Fetch), 
> canonicalising fields (e.g., for Signatures), etc.

I have been wondering when you were going to drag that out in the open :-)

Yes, I absolutely think we should do this, because this was pretty much
precisely why (and how!) I came up with SF to begin with.

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