Re: Call for Consensus: Remove "reference set" from HPACK (to address #552) from Greg Wilkins on 2014-07-16 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2014)

From: Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:55:58 +1000
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAH_y2NGeDDsvf07+-ynQn61Shq5ZBZw1=W5KxEPvgbS5gkvVig@mail.gmail.com>

On 16 July 2014 15:25, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, gotcha.  So references to the header table for name-only
> require two bytes most times.  Seems like that's rare enough that
> there is a gain.
>

You still get the first 64 entries of the header table in 1 byte, so not
all non static names indexes will be 2 bytes.

cheers



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