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

On 23 Apr 2014, at 11:39 am, Ryan Hamilton <rch@google.com> wrote:

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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.
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> > 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).
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> ​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?​

... isn't expected to use alternative services (no matter how discovered) to establish new connections; however, existing connections through the proxy might be affected (e.g., CONNECT tunnels).

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Received on Wednesday, 23 April 2014 01:42:57 UTC