Re: consensus on :query ?

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> > Some time ago I proposed and argued that :query should be split out
> > from :path and as I perceived it, there were a lot of people nodding
> > on that.
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> > I don't want to inject it right now, we have plenty of balls in the
> > air, but can I get you top open an issue for it, so we don't forget ?
> >
> > (Some of) the arguments for :query:
> >
> >       Load balancers and other "triage" proxies seldom if ever
> >       look at the :query part to determine handling, splitting
> >       this field out of :path means they don't have as much data
> >       to run through the decompressor to make their decisions.
> >
> >       Semantically :path is much more static than :query is, which
> >       means that :path can be compressed by back-reference, whereas
> >       :query almost always will need huffman coding.
> >
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All the best,
Alvaro