Re: comments on draft-mbelshe-httpbis-spdy-00

Can you elaborate how SRV would work here from a client perspective? Do you
propose making the client block on the SRV lookup? Or are you proposing
doing this out of band and switching to HTTP/2.0 if we discover support?

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=22423#c9 has some of our
thoughts on SRV in Chromium.


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Patrick McManus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 12:24 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
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> > If we take architecture seriously, the primary signaling mechanism for
> > HTTP/2.0 should be some form of statement in a DNS record to tell the
> > client 'I do HTTP 2.0'. We might also have some sort of upgrade
> > mechanism for use when the DNS records are blocked but that should be
> > a fallback.
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> This is my current thinking as well though I'm not tied to it.. srv in
> the base case (with the possibility of dnssec) and something like
> upgrade/alternate-protocol over HTTP/1 as a slower fallback.
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Received on Wednesday, 15 August 2012 17:19:37 UTC