Re: HTTP/2, "h2t" and protocol identifiers in general

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

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> On 4 Mar 2014, at 11:25 am, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > How does one determine WS usnig HTTP2/TLS/TCP as compared to WS over
> TLS/TCP?
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> We haven't discussed much yet, but there are two (not necessarily
> exclusive) proposals:
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> - You try; if the other end doesn't support WS, it refuses with an error
> code.
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> - You discover what schemes the server supports using a SETTINGS.
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I just want to point out that both of these approaches requires an extra
roundtrip in the TLS-ALPN HTTP/2 establishment case. Which is unfortunate
and might lead clients to race more connections.


> This assumes you already have an HTTP/2 connection open to the server; if
> you don't, you have to figure out what to do, but I *think* that's a WS/1
> problem, not ours.
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> Cheers,
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> Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
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Received on Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:29:46 UTC