Re: Moving forward on improving HTTP's security

On 2013/11/14 17:24, Roberto Peon wrote:
> Ignoring improving aggregate security for a second (it would be beyond
> foolish to do so longer than this paragraph), everyone seems to be
> forgetting how poorly non http/1.1 actually works out there on the wild
> wild internet.
>
> 10-20% failure rates are simply unacceptable for both site operators and
> client writers.

This is a very important point. But if HTTP 2.0 is going to be the big 
thing we think it is, shouldn't most of these problems be addressed in a 
rather short timeframe (maybe not weeks, but also not years)?

If somebody wanted to argue for using HTTP 2.0 in the open (i.e. over 
port 80) as much as possible, couldn't they come up with a scheme that 
tries port 80, and falls back with some extremely lenient variant of TLS 
if port 80 doesn't work? (Please note that this is only a strawman, not 
actually something I'd advocate.)

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Thursday, 14 November 2013 10:56:42 UTC