Re: Alt-Svc #71: Hints for Flushing

I agree that this would be quite helpful, especially for the use-case for
splitting off traffic that supports SNI to a separate alt-svc.  Other
corner cases with TLS-terminating middleboxes, I can't see why those
alt-svc assignments couldn't persist past network changes.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Ryan Hamilton <rch@google.com> wrote:

> I'd love to see an extension like this!
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On 2 Jun 2015, at 2:13 am, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 31 May 2015 at 18:06, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>> >> This is an interesting discussion to have in concert with #69
>> regarding extensibility; if we make services containing unrecognised
>> extensions must-ignore, it would make this sort of thing much chattier; the
>> above as an after-the-fact extension would need to be this on the wire:
>> >>
>> >>  Alt-Svc: h2=":443"; ma=3600, h2=":443"; ma=3600; persist
>> >
>> > Yep, but if we add it now, that concern is less of a problem because
>> > servers can send it will a reasonable expectation of it being
>> > understood.
>>
>> Absolutely. But, there's always the next extension…
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>>
>>
>>
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