Re: Expect/Continue and Removing 1xx Final Status codes from HTTP/2 from Willy Tarreau on 2013-10-15 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:45:57 +0200
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20131015044557.GA20970@1wt.eu>

Hi Mark,

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 05:43:30PM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> At last week's Interim in Seattle, we discussed how we'll handle Expect/Continue in HTTP/2.0.
> 
>   https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/18
> 
> The plan so far has been to NOT accommodate Expect/Continue on the wire, instead requiring software that receives an Expect header before an HTTP/2.0 hop to synthesise a 100 Continue response.
(...)
> What do people think?

I fully support this for the exact reasons you mentionned.

Best regards,
Willy

Received on Tuesday, 15 October 2013 04:46:25 UTC