Re: Adjusting our spec names

In message <20120401090052.GR14039@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:

>> One of the really big problems with HTTP/1.1 in that respect, is the
>> lack of a session-concept, which people hack around with cookies.
>> 
>> HTTP/2.0 should have real sessions, so that HTTP-routers don't have
>> to inspect and mangle cookies.
>
>[...]

>I think it would be useful to have a TCP extension to transport such
>application session information (that's out of the scope of this WG).

I'm not sure I see how that would work, if a proxy of some kind
connects to a server, there will be multiple sessions in the same
TCP connection.

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Received on Sunday, 1 April 2012 09:07:12 UTC