Re: Pipeline hinting revisited

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Sat, 13 August 2011 07:42 UTC

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On 13/08/2011, at 7:44 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> What might
> work, without protocol changes, is to use a host or pathname
> convention that says all of the resources on *this* site are
> good for pipelining.  Ugly as heck, but it would work well enough
> for the use cases where pipelining helps the most (embedded stuff).

... or perhaps a persistent, out-of-band hint, in the style of:
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-browser-hints


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