Re: Future features

[Roy Fielding <fi...@beach.w3.org>]

>We implemented KeepAlive as hashed out with a number of people.  Just
>before the initial beta, however, and IETF draft "Session extension"
>came out.  We could probably switch to it with not too much difficulty
>(it actually cuts out most of the headers on the secondary requests
>down the pipe).  I'd think that browsers would support this before NG,
>but that's just a guess (the benefit of having browser teams).

Argh!  It isn't "the IETF draft", it's Alex's draft.  The IETF draft
will be HTTP/1.1, since you cannot safely implement keep-alive
across a 1.0 proxy.

......Roy