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Re: HTTP/2 Header Encoding Status Update

James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Mon, 04 March 2013 00:08 UTC

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From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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The LSB-ordered scheme used by protobufs is really drop dead simple to
implement. Extremely difficult to get wrong unless you forget to account
for signs. That's really the reason I chose it for the prototype.


On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Adrien W. de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote:

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> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "James Cloos" <cloos@jhcloos.com>
> To: "James M Snell" <jasnell@gmail.com>
> Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> Sent: 3/03/2013 11:03:18 a.m.
> Subject: Re: HTTP/2 Header Encoding Status Update
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>>   "JMS" == James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>>
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>> JMS> LSB.. I'm currently following the same scheme as protobufs but
>> that's not
>> JMS> set in stone.
>>
>> IP itself is Big Endian. No protocol over it should choose otherwise.
>>
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> what proportion of hardware processing HTTP is big-endian?
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>> There is too much room for confusion otherwise.
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> It's not actually that hard to get right.
> you use library functions to get the information from TCP and lower anyway.
>
> IME you're more likely to get errors when using big-endian data, when you
> omit a htonl / ntohl.
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> Adrien
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>> If protobufs does so, that is a bug.
>>
>> -JimC
>> --
>> James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
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