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Re: Alternative Header Compression Update..

Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com> Wed, 10 July 2013 18:31 UTC

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James,

On Jul 10, 2013, at 12:05 PM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Millisecond precision has been on the HTTP wish-lists of many
> application developers for a very long time, including mine and I
> believe the additional requirements are worth it. That said, I've been
> considering an alternative approach that is based on a single byte era
> prefix. This would encode the timestamp into two parts, a 8-bit prefix
> followed by a uvarint <= (2^32)-1. For now, I just picked a format
> that would work, with the intent of revisiting it once typed codecs
> come up for formal discussion after the august interop event.

*If* millisecond precision is needed I would still prefer to see a real date + time encoding and not "seconds since an epoch".

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair

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