Re: HTTP/2 vs. proxies ?

For encrypted traffic, forward proxies are functionally bypassed and most HTTP/2 traffic will be encrypted. When they do see the rare plaintext attempt to upgrade to HTTP/2, proxies can simply strip the header and prevent it. Therefore proxies have little motivation to implement it. HTTP/2 with mandatory TLS (the Google and Mozilla position) is an attempt to obsolete forward proxies, which explains why lack of proxy support in HTTP/2.0 is not a blocking issue to go to last call.

Thanks,

Peter

On Jun 21, 2014, at 12:52 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> In message <CABkgnnX9+sf=1RmgyK498ZQwDX+tbAVinck4wpzUgTt4RyH4Cw@mail.gmail.com>
> , Martin Thomson writes:
> 
>> We killed it so that we could avoid having to talk about it any more.
>> That worked out well, didn't it?
> 
> I'm increasingly getting the feeling that we have people who like
> the HTTP/2.0 draft and people who work with proxies, and that those
> two sets are almost exclusive ?
> 
> I would be interesting to see what a straw-poll of these two
> questions would show:
> 
> A)  I think HTTP/2.0 is ready for last call		YES/NO
> 
> B)  My primary HTTP/2.0 interest is proxy technology	YES/NO
> 
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Received on Monday, 23 June 2014 21:34:11 UTC