Re: Technical Excellence?

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-03-28 14:25:27

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 7:19 AM Dominique Devienne <ddevienne_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Are you still limiting yourself to HTTP 1.1, or is HTTP 2, and possibly
> HTTP 3 in the future, in scope?
>

Yes this will be HTTP/1 only. Implementing the newer protocols is an
enormous undertaking and doesn't offer the same value for the amount of
work needed. It is also a thousand times less fun, as these protocols were
designed for the needs of big tech companies and not someone who just wants
to write a small, simple network program.

> What about encryption? Standard ones are gzip and brotli for HTTP. Or the
> recent [Zstd][1] one? --DD
>

I think you mean compression, and yes - automatic addition and removal of
transfer-encoding and content-encoding is IN SCOPE ! :) And this will work
without requiring #ifdef to indicate if you have ZLIB support, this way
there is only one version of the static or dynamic http-proto library
instead of many depending on macros). There's a run-time dependency
injection thing going on to support this.

Thanks