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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Inconsistency of QPACK static table (#3562)

Mike Bishop <notifications@github.com> Tue, 31 March 2020 13:27 UTC

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IIRC, it's deliberate, albeit regrettable.

The values were compiled from real-world header use, and while the space is not semantically meaningful, we opted to go with the most common variant of each to get the most benefit on encoders which would do a strict string comparison to the value in the table instead of checking for equivalent values.

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