Re: Questions about ALPN

On 19/10/2013 7:12 a.m., Andrei Popov wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> SPDY and HTTP/1.1 protocol IDs are defined in the ALPN draft so that 
> ALPN can be immediately used to negotiate the same protocols as NPN. 
> We had originally defined an HTTP/2 protocol ID as well, but removed 
> it from the latest versions of the draft so that the HTTPbis WG can 
> specify the appropriate protocol ID(s).
>
> ALPN protocol IDs are defined as opaque non-empty octet strings, which 
> allows for a compact representation of a large number of IDs. This 
> does not prevent the HTTPbis WG from defining US-ASCII or UTF-8 
> protocol IDs for use on the Web. Do you have concerns about the 
> representation of protocol IDs in ALPN?
>

In addition to the worry about ALPN draft defining any there is the 
issue of case-sensitivity for the ones it does list.
When I last read the draf it most definitely did NOT specify SPDY and 
HTTP/1.1 - it did specify some non-existent spdy/* and http/1.1 tokens.

Has that been corrected?

Amos

Received on Saturday, 19 October 2013 02:50:11 UTC