Re: Framing the proxy discussion: does HTTP2 come with new proxy mechanism ? from Martin Thomson on 2014-06-23 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2014)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:15:48 -0700
To: "emile.stephan@orange.com" <emile.stephan@orange.com>
Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnXiqOf2w-bviSP-d1G=hxxvjCajZHnko5J_-SEdi3RcDQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 23 June 2014 04:18,  <emile.stephan@orange.com> wrote:
> It is true that there is nothing about proxy in the HTTPbis charter. It does not mean that HTTP2 does not introduce new proxy mechanism. IMO, the connection management of HTTP2 where resources of multiple domains and of multiples schemes are multiplexed in a single connection is a new proxy mechanism.


Technically, it's a gateway mechanism.  That's a critical distinction here.

Received on Monday, 23 June 2014 17:16:15 UTC