Re: CONNECT and HTTP/2.0

A pull request with edits against the current draft would work too :-)
On Aug 31, 2013 5:40 PM, "Ryan Hamilton" <rch@google.com> wrote:

> I implemented the CONNECT over SPDY support in Chrome.  Here are a couple
> of docs we cooked up at the time
>
> http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-proxy-examples
> http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/secure-web-proxy
> http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-proxy
>
> The first is the most concrete.  I could write up a I-D for this, if
> that's the right way forward.  However, it seems like the behavior of
> CONNECT on an HTTP/2 stream is pretty much identical to the behavior of
> CONNECT on an HTTP/1 connection.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:56 PM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If CONNECT support is critical, then my recommendation would be for
>> y'all to make a more formal proposal and document how it's supposed to
>> work in the form of an I-D. Currently the details on how this would
>> work are somewhat muddy.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:35 PM, William Chan (陈智昌)
>> <willchan@chromium.org> wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
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