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Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2

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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
> In comp.compression, Thomas Richter  <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > Am 13.05.2014 09:26, schrieb Robert Wessel:
> >> As to the purpose of HTTP header compression, many of the headers have
> >> gotten fairly bulky, what with contents of cookies, the web site name,
> >> modifications dates, encoding types, agent/server IDs, and whatnot,
> >> plus you often see many headers when you have HTTP 1.1 persistent
> >> connections, often for many smallish chunks of web page, especially
> >> when you see dozens of GETs for unchanged pages in a single session,
> >> where there are thousands of header bytes exchanged, with no data at
> > Well... ok. That's all I can say, looks weird to me as I would have 
> > guessed otherwise, but if you say.
> 
> There are a few very obvious large items in a typical web page, and
> many, many more small and less obvious ones. Look at a web site
> load analysis for examples. With Pingdom Website Speed Test:
> 
> http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
> 
> And entering "www.latimes.com", it finds 146 individual requests making
> up the page. Many of these have a content body size of zero bytes, and
> probably half of them are 1kB or less. 
> 
> Compressed headers will make web bugs and other tracking tools much less
> bandwidth intensive, and thus cheaper to do. Don't you want site
> operators to be able to track you better?

The obvious optimisation is to simply not send all that shit.

HTTP 1.1 was clearly a prototype of a much larger system...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_73vDgBjU

Phil
-- 
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of 
ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather
than ridiculed. -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), lecture at Konigsberg, 1775

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Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) - 2014-05-13 04:50 +0000
  Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2014-05-13 08:37 +0200
    Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-13 02:26 -0500
      Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2014-05-13 13:39 +0200
        Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-05-13 19:19 +0000
          Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2014-05-14 11:44 +0200
            Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-14 12:08 -0500
          Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-01 12:11 +0300
            Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-06-03 20:00 +0000
              Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 matrix29bear@gmail.com - 2014-06-11 00:53 -0700
    Re: Standardisation of header compression in HTTP 2 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-05-13 08:35 +0000

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