Greasing HTTP
draft-nottingham-http-grease-01
| Document | Type | Expired Internet-Draft (individual) | |
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| Author | Mark Nottingham | ||
| Last updated | 2021-04-10 (latest revision 2020-10-07) | ||
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of
the expired Internet-Draft can be found at
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nottingham-http-grease-01.txt
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nottingham-http-grease-01.txt
Abstract
Like many network protocols, HTTP is vulnerable to ossification of its extensibility points. This draft explains why HTTP ossification is a problem and establishes guidelines for exercising those extensions by 'greasing' the protocol to combat it.
Authors
Mark Nottingham (mnot@mnot.net)
(Note: The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid.)