Re: RFC 8441 - The value of :protocol field

Same.  An erratum seems fine in this case.

On Tue, Jun 4, 2024, at 01:58, David Schinazi wrote:
> I agree with you, I think that these points were just oversights. Might 
> be worth filing errata?
> David
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 4:54 PM Lucas Pardue <lucas@lucaspardue.com> wrote:
>> __
>> Hello, 
>> 
>> RFC 8441 states 
>> 
>> > A new pseudo-header field :protocol MAY be included on request HEADERS indicating the desired protocol to be spoken on the tunnel created by CONNECT. The pseudo-header field is single valued and contains a value from the "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Upgrade Token Registry" located at <https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-upgrade-tokens>
>> 
>> This seems to have two problems on the letter of the requirement IMO:
>> 
>> 1) An HTTP/2 request could span HEADERS and CONTINUATION. It would be weird to do that with the early pseudo-headers but I don't think it's illegal
>> 
>> 2) Tokens are an extension point, and its ok to send values that aren't formally registered, and never will vlbe, in the IANA registry.
>> 
>> Anyone else have opinions on this?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Lucas

Received on Tuesday, 4 June 2024 13:24:17 UTC