Re: New Version Notification for draft-snell-httpbis-keynego-01.txt

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 08:47:43PM -0800, James M Snell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Ilari Liusvaara
> <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
> >
> > How would that work? CONNECT is essentially TCP stream carried within
> > HTTP/2 mux.
> 
> CONNECT within HTTP/2 consists of a HEADERS frame followed by any
> number of DATA frames. If, before sending the CONNECT we negotiate a
> key agreement with the authority/origin, every DATA frame in the
> CONNECT stream would be encrypted in accordance with the agreement. An
> intermediary would be less able to inspect the DATA frame payload to
> see what's going on inside.

CONNECT isn't end-to-end.

-Ilari

Received on Wednesday, 20 November 2013 05:06:51 UTC