Re: Alt-Svc related Chromium bug report (proxy related)

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

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> On 22 Apr 2014, at 4:12 am, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On 19 April 2014 23:36, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> >> The draft wording however is not limited to "proxies". Which was my
> >> initial report of there being a problem.
> >
> > Mark already suggested that the wording needed to be changed from
> > "intermediary" to "proxy".  I think that suffices.
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> It might also be helpful to note that a client with a configured proxy
> isn't expected to use alternative services (no matter how discovered).


​That doesn't sound right to me. Couldn't the client use a CONNECT tunnel
to reach the alternate service? If the alternate service is HTTP/2, and the
main service is HTTP/1, then there could be a big performance win from
using the alternate service through the proxy, wouldn't there?​

Received on Wednesday, 23 April 2014 01:40:32 UTC