Re: Fwd: I-D Action: draft-reschke-http-jfv-00.txt

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Mon, 14 July 2014 13:21 UTC

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In message <53C3D406.1060101@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes:

>FYI: this as a rough proposal how new header fields could use JSON as 
>syntax.

I would *love* to see HTTP/3 impose a uniform well defined format on headers.

It might even make sense to drop the concept of headers, and send
them all in a single JSON metadata object.

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