Re: CONNECT and HTTP/2.0

This is fine for now, but FYI I consider this a blocker for Chromium to
switch entirely to HTTP/2.0. I note that this is an existing HTTP feature
that clients use to tunnel over HTTP proxies. As far as its use in SPDY,
it's not merely theoretical, but has a number of actual uses:

*
http://spdylay.sourceforge.net/package_README.html#shrpx-a-reverse-proxy-for-spdy-https
*
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/breakwall-vpn-spdy-proxy/higommoegggcanmkapeoohipckeofpnd(3000~
installs)
*
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spdy-proxy/hhihiednomfhmngipmplmgcngliajdnn(4000~
installs)
* Corporate google.com VPN extension (not public) (widely used by Googlers)

I believe these uses demonstrate that this is a desired use case to
support. As noted, it is fairly straightforward to define a mapping of HTTP
CONNECT over HTTP/2.0. Please see:
http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-proxy-examples and
http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-proxy.


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Martin Thomson
<martin.thomson@gmail.com>wrote:

> Folks might notice that I've added a section on CONNECT to HTTP/2.0:
>
> http://http2.github.io/http2-spec/index.html#rfc.section.8.3
>
> This doesn't close #230, it simply documents status quo.  If we decide
> to support CONNECT, the draft will, of course, be updated to reflect
> that decision.  This is fairly straightforward based on the Chromium
> documentation and the discussion thus far, we just need to decide if
> it's valuable enough to do.
>
>