All, I've been getting pings from some significant content providers interested in participating in an experiment where servers could opt-in via hints on uri masks to receiving some form of streamlined http requests. We don't normally do these kinds of things (see below) because they could cause compatibility or flexibility problems, but having the server signal that's cool with them (along with the scope of that decision and some rules around how long that hint lasts) resolves a lot of those issues and can result in better networking performance.
examples: * no cookies for /images/* please * minimal headers are fine (no accept-*) * my server can handle large numbers of parallel connections (which btw doesn't mean its always the right thing to do, but the server's voice is impt) * minimal user-agent header is fine (e.g. "user-agent: firefox:14.0") * /images/ works with http pipelines really well (static, small, etc..) etc.. There is a draft for one potential framework here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-browser-hints-03 If you've got thoughts on why this would be a bad idea, or thoughts for other knobs I'd love to hear them. please read the draft first, of course. Also, my apologies for crossposting this if that kind of thing bothers you. I reserve it for rare occasions I assure you. -Patrick _______________________________________________ dev-tech-network mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network
