Re: "Secure" proxies for HTTP URIs [was: new version trusted-proxy20 draft] from Roland Zink on 2014-03-03 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2014)

From: Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:27:40 +0100
To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <5314915C.4070500@zinks.de>

Something like in RFC2817, which allows the server to send an upgrade 
header? Both mandatory (426 upgrade required) and optional upgrade is 
described.

Roland

On 03.03.2014 14:57, Peter Lepeska wrote:
> Thinking on this a bit more I realize that there is no need to 
> redirect in the case that I am describing where the proxy is in path 
> and already sees all traffic. In a sense the proxy wants to do an 
> "Upgrade" to HTTP/2 for traffic between itself and the UA. However, 
> since some browsers do not support HTTP/2 in plain text, it is also 
> necessary to switch to TLS -- that's the problem I think we need to 
> solve.
>
> Peter

Received on Monday, 3 March 2014 14:28:02 UTC