Re: Large Frame Proposal

On 2014-07-09 19:15, William Chan (陈智昌) wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:30 AM, <K.Morgan@iaea.org
> <mailto:K.Morgan@iaea.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Roberto-
>
>     On Wednesday,09 July 2014 08:53, grmocg@gmail.com
>     <mailto:grmocg@gmail.com> wrote:
>      > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Matthew Kerwin
>     <matthew@kerwin.net.au <mailto:matthew@kerwin.net.au>> wrote:
>      >> Don't forget that some of us are going to be using IE a
>      >> lot more in future, if that lets us use HTTP/2 without TLS.
>
>     We likely fall into that category as well.
>
>      > Sure, good luck with that 85% success rate :)
>      > Makes sense on an intranet. Not so much on the wild,
>      > wild internet, unless things have substantially changed.
>      > -=R
>
>     Success rate of what?  Are you referring to IE?  Does that browser
>     have a particular success rate issue?  Or are you referring to an
>     issue with clear-text HTTP?  Clearly I am missing some context.  If
>     this was already discussed on-list and you can just point me to the
>     discussion I'll gladly go read it.
>
>
> The success rate is HTTP Upgrade in cleartext over the web as tested
> with a single Google server and Google Chrome clients in an experiment.
> And 85% was for a separate port. For port 80, it was 63%. Details here:
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg05593.html. More
> general analysis at my blog:
> https://insouciant.org/tech/http-slash-2-considerations-and-tradeoffs/#Upgrade,
> including discussions of other deployment options and their success rates.
> ...

It would be interesting to repeat that experiment. It's now 4.5 years 
later, and deploying Websockets may have caused broken code to be fixed.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:45:43 UTC