Re: [#150] Making certain settings mandatory

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Sat, 29 June 2013 20:49 UTC

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On 6/29/13 9:47 PM, Jeff Pinner wrote:
> So devil's advocate -- why make the mandatory during Upgrade?
>
> If the client is upgrading to HTTP/2.0 and doesn't send them, why
> can't we just assume that the client has accepted the default values?
>

Because defaults can NEVER be changed.  Sometimes it's better to not
ever have them.