On Feb 19, 2008 1:50 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably the appropriate forum to make this proposal would be the IETF > HTTP Working Group. I'll join the appropriate mailing list if others > are interested in pursuing it there. In advance of this, we could > agree by convention on an unofficial "Connection: x-pipeline" value to > see how well this proposal works in practice. > > Thoughts? >
It's a good idea, but some proxies forward hop-by-hop headers. :( See <http://www.mnot.net/blog/2007/06/20/proxy_caching> FWIW, the next Firefox beta will have pipelining enabled for https. I won't be surprised if we hit bad bugs. Falling back to https in combination with your proposed connection token might be a fine idea. -- Robert Sayre "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
