Re: JSON headers

Cory Benfield <cory@lukasa.co.uk> Mon, 11 July 2016 10:30 UTC

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From: Cory Benfield <cory@lukasa.co.uk>
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Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "\"Martin J. Dürst\"" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Yanick Rochon <yanick.rochon@gmail.com>, Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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> On 11 Jul 2016, at 08:15, Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> wrote:
> 
> In the thread it seemed people discuss actual JSON formatted headers as
> a whole, ie, the whole header block becomes JSON.
> 
> I dunno there is any point to that, and it won't fly with HPACK.  But
> maybe I just misread what was suggested.

I don’t think anyone has suggested that. They have suggested making header field *values* entirely JSON, but no-one has suggested making the entire header block a JSON object as far as I have seen.

Cory