Re: HTTP/2 vs 1.1 semantics: intermediate codes

On Jun 12, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:

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> 
>> In the 20+ years of HTTP, we've defined 3 1xx codes in total.
>> 
>> Of those,
>>   a. HTTP/2 provides a far superior alternative to 100
>>   b. HTTP/2 does not need 101.
>>   c. 102 has been long deprecated.
>> 
>> So while I can agree that the capability is interesting from a
>> theoretical standpoint, it's quite hard to justify spending effort on
>> a feature that is some combination of not needed, not wanted and not
>> used.
> 
> Chicken-and-egg. APIs do not give access to 1xx codes, so nobody is using them right now.

That’s not entirely accurate. Expect-100 is used by default with all MS .NET Web Services. It’s supported (although usually not on by default) by various Java frameworks as well.

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Jason T. Greene
WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat

Received on Thursday, 12 June 2014 17:57:08 UTC