Re: HTTP/2 Priorities Proposal

Are there any objections to me opening a pull requests with these changes
as a more concrete proposal?


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com> wrote:

> To change all weights, we have to issue PRIORITY frames for each root.
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> Yes, changing the weight of a stream would require issuing a PRIORITY
> frame for each stream. With this proposal you cannot do it by changing the
> weight of the group.
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> I believe that this is an acceptable tradeoff.
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> Let me give a similar example where we reached the same conclusion:
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> At one point we considered whether or not RST_STREAM should have an
> ASSOCIATED flag. The argument was that the server could send PUSH_PROMISE
> frames for some stream that the client did not want to receive pushes for.
> With the flag, the client could reset all of those streams with a single
> frame. We decided it was perfectly acceptable to send one frame for each
> stream and dropped the flag.
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> With this change, to change the weight of multiple streams, you must issue
> one frame per stream, but IMHO this is worth it given the reduced
> complexity of the change, and more importantly, the ability that this
> change introduces of being able to completely proxy the priority
> information.
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