Nice

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 16 August 2013 17:41 UTC

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On a different end of the spectrum that we're used to operating in for
HTTP/2.0, this is a small proposal for a header that advises
intermediaries about the relative (un)priority of requests.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-http-nice-00

This is probably most useful for constrained servers (I've put core on BCC).

--Martin

p.s., The title isn't a value judgement, it's a nod to the unix
utility (thanks to Richard Barnes for pointing this out).