Subject: Re: [httpwg/http-extensions] Cookie removal algorithm (#494)

From: HTTP issue updates <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 01:59:05 -0700

Sorry I didn't see this when you first filed it.

> I understand that @mikewest still prefers cookie priorities, but no one at Mozilla has
> any interest in that solution and it didn't seem to get any traction when we discussed
> it before.

I'd rephrase this a bit. :) The relevant claim here is less that I prefer `Priority` (though I do), and more that Chrome has been shipping the `Priority` attribute for years and I have personal knowledge of Google's internal dependency on the attribute for the corporate intranet. I have anecdotal stories of similar dependency in other companies, but nothing I can point to public statements to justify.

I recognize that other vendors are unlikely to ship the attribute. I'm very open to reviewing the results of y'all's experimentation to see if the results in other browsers show that we're making the wrong choice in Chrome, but my (biased) opinion at the moment is that `Priority` solves this problem in a way that puts developers more directly in control of the eviction process, and that that control is concretely valuable in scenarios that run up against the vendor-specified limits on a regular basis.

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