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Content-Encodings should be self-describing #21

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bsdphk opened this issue Nov 1, 2016 · 2 comments · Fixed by #430
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Content-Encodings should be self-describing #21

bsdphk opened this issue Nov 1, 2016 · 2 comments · Fixed by #430
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bsdphk commented Nov 1, 2016

As part of the discussion about the Encryption specification we discussed how Content-Encodings can or should take parameters from HTTP headers.

The consensus was that they shouldn't.

Whatever information a C-E may need should be inside the body of the object, just like the GZIP header etc.

We should document this as a rule, if we ever do a HTTP[1].ter
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reschke commented Nov 15, 2016

+1, except for the constraint: "when possible". In the case of the encryption coding, it's clearly necessary to have the actual key information needed for description outside the payload.

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we can add something to https://httpwg.org/http-core/draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-latest.html#content.coding.extensibility

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