Re: Alternative Service Indication

This looks good to me.

   Erik



On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>wrote:

> The discussion we've been having on this topic seems to have
> converged, or at least cooled a little.
>
> I've put together a pull request that combines the following changes:
>
> 1. Clients can send an ALTSVC frame to indicate the service that is in
> use.  This is HTTP/2 only, obviously.  The main advantage of this is
> that you can send a single frame.
>
> 2. Clients can send an Alt-Svc header field to indicate the service
> that is in use everywhere else.  This has to be on every request
> (i.e., no change).
>
> 3. Remove the Service header field in favour of the above.
>
> 4. Add some security considerations around the use of these indicators
> for tracking clients.  I was a little concerned about this at first,
> but now that I've done the thinking, the concern seems manageable.
>
> See the text here:
> https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/474
>
> --Martin
>
>