Re: HTTP router point-of-view concerns

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Fri, 12 July 2013 07:00 UTC

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In message <092D65A8-8CB7-419D-B6A4-77CAE40A0026@gmail.com>, Sam Pullara writes
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>How sure are we that the entire idea of header compression isn't a bad 
>idea?

I'm entirely convinced it is a bad idea.

The main gain that can be had from it, is compressing cookies and
that issue should be solved by moving the cookies onto the server,
indexed by a client provided session-id.

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