Re: Framing and control-frame continuations

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Adrien W. de Croy <adrien@qbik.com> wrote:

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> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Patrick McManus" <pmcmanus@mozilla.com>
> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
> Cc: "Roberto Peon" <grmocg@gmail.com>; "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>;
> "HTTP Working Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> Sent: 7/02/2013 8:31:38 p.m.
> Subject: Re: Framing and control-frame continuations
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>  unwanted server pushes.
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> Sorry but I find the prospect of "unwanted" server pushes quite alarming.
> This phrase and a previous mail today which indicated that server push
> would be unilateral made me write this.
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> Surely all server pushes should be solicited by the client first?  E.g.
> the client indicates it wants pushes.  Until it does that, it doesn't
> receive any.
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sure disabling them completely is possible. but even a client who wants
them in general may not want some in specific because they turn out to be
duplicates of existing cache entries.