Re: Delta Compression and UTF-8 Header Values

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Sat, 09 February 2013 02:22 UTC

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To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
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Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:19:35 +0100
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* Mark Nottingham wrote:
>I think our choices are roughly:
>
>1) everything is opaque bytes

I can imagine some exceptions, like the `Host` header might be encoded
as UTF-8 if it is made into a separate "HTTP/2"-specific field, rather 
than carried as "normal header", but other than that I am pessimistic
about trying anything else.
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