Re: Review: http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-mbelshe-httpbis-spdy-00.txt

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote:
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> On 1/03/2012 12:53 p.m., Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>> In message<1330559425.24673.149.camel@home.hno.se>, Henrik
>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nord
>> str=F6m?= writes:
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>>> ons 2012-02-29 klockan 15:16 -0800 skrev Mike Belshe:
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>>>> The problem with upgrade is that it costs a round trip of latency.
>>>
>>> Only if you are pipelining and then only on the second request, and
>>> pipelining on the first request is generally a bad idea anyway. So no.
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>> There is of course an incredible evil way to indicate what protocol
>> you want, without expending a RTT:
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>> Have the server send a TCP option in the SYN+ACK packet that tells
>> you what it can do on this TCP connection.
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> Heh..  I was just about to suggest a TCP option.
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> I don't think stack support is that good for such things though.

No doubt this is why SPDY uses a TLS extension (NPN).

-Ekr

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