Re: HTTP redirect for HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) in CDN use cases

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey Patrick,
>
> Some replies inline.
>
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, 02:01 Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com wrote:
>
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>> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 3:59 PM Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
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>> chrome should speak for themselves if they like, but my understanding
>> from previous comments is that they intend to fix this as part of the work
>> for supporting HQ at least for h2. (h1 has always been a little concerning
>> there as it uses the host and port implicitly)
>>
>
> My understanding is that Chrome host-based Alt-Svc is supported in gQUIC
> but not for H2 ( from a Google Groups thread "layering of socket pools
> makes implementing this for HTTP/2 significantly more complex"). If that
> complexity has been overcome it would be good news, it would be nice to
> have a public statement to that effect.
>

Alas, this is still the case.

> I bring this up because its the only thing that I know of that satisfies
>> both relative references against the derived location _and_ fallback to the
>> original location in the case of reachability failure (which relative
>> references to the redirected url do not) - which is a nice pattern.
>>
>
> Totally agree, I think there is untapped potential. Especially when
> combined with ORIGIN and Secondary certs.
>
> I could imagine some deployment that offers several alternatives, to avoid
> falling back to the broker. Although I don't think implementations would
> presently work that way.
>
> DASH also offers a feature to specify multiple origins in the manifest
> itself, with the client choosing them in an ordered way. There's
> potentially some interesting interplay with Alt-Svc here.
>
> Lucas
>
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Received on Tuesday, 6 November 2018 01:33:47 UTC