Re: [#193] Request payloads and push

FWIW, had a thread on this already on list...

  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013JulSep/0624.html

My POV: push streams ought to be limited strictly to GET or HEAD. Period.

- James

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Martin Thomson
<martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> There's been something of a long thread on github about this topic,
> that Will was unsuccessful in moving over here.  Let me try again.
>
> https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/193
>
> Julian summarized the issue quite cogently as:
>> [...] HTTP/1.1 allows safe methods with payload, so if we decide that
>> in HTTP/2.0 we want to allow PUSH for safe methods, we shouldn't
>> rule out that they could have payloads.
>
> I'm just going to throw out the obvious counter argument here, namely:
>
> HTTP/2.0 doesn't allow push for safe methods, it allows push for safe
> methods that do not have request bodies.
>
> And then we see what happens.  Commence!
>

Received on Monday, 12 August 2013 19:49:49 UTC