Re: HTTP Browser Hints.. feedback?

Patrick McManus <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:38:21 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.netlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/13/2012 4:44 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2012-07-12 15:52, Justin Lebar wrote:
>> This is interesting...
>>
>> * Does the additional request for ./well-known/hints on every new
>> connection to an origin have performance implications, for the client
>> or the server?  I thought that we didn't like the hardcoded
>> favicon.ico hack, and this seems like the same kind of thing.
>> ...
>
> An alternative would be to reference the hints resource from a link 
> element in HTML (assuming that most conversations with a web server 
> start by fetching an initial page :-).
>

interesting way to opt in.