Re: New tunnel protocol from Martin Thomson on 2015-01-25 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2015)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:20:46 -0800
To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
Cc: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnXKHnA_v80ofrT3etgq2c9fz0Z+3OLzYP4_5Z-VQW-2RA@mail.gmail.com>

On 24 January 2015 at 19:33, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote:
> The problem for me as a proxy implementor, is I still don't know whether to
> expect there to be a TLS layer in there or not.  Please don't make me resort
> to sniffing or daft heuristics to figure this out.  Just make it explicit.
> If there is an and/or option, include a way to clearly state this in the
> protocol.

The ALPN identifier tells you if there is TLS.

Received on Sunday, 25 January 2015 05:21:13 UTC