Re: SPDY Header Frames

"Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> Tue, 17 July 2012 18:52 UTC

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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:50:41 +0200
From: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@...> writes:

>
> On 2012-07-17 15:38, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> > There must be a smarter way than "User-Agent:"...
>
> Actually one nice potential optimization is if the server can declare
> that it's not interested in the User-Agent at all; see
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-browser-hints-03#section-5.7>

The server may not be interested by intermediaries may still be

(while ugly user-agent special-casing is quite useful for proxy operators
that have to contend with web clients that were never really tested with
proxies and misbehave big way)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot