Google seems to disagree, and this is a main reason HTTP2 uses a proper binary format. And it concurs with my keen experience, having written a proxy and indexer for SIP, which shares most of HTTP&#x27;s parse design.<p>The simple fact that there&#x27;s more bytes involved means there gonna be more work. Add to that the inane &quot;human writeable&quot; rules like line folding and it&#x27;s a mess.