Re: #536: clarify extensibility for :pseudo header fields

On 2 Jul 2014, at 3:46 pm, David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com> wrote:

>> It's a lot more than that; if they're trying to map into HTTP semantics, they'll have to figure out how to represent the headers in existing APIs. 
> 
> Simply strip the colon. I suspect that even when the ALPN spec mentions nothing of the sort, it will be a practical workaround anyway. It’s obvious enough to warrant a specific prohibition, if you want folks not to do this.
> 
> Graceful degradation dictates that the subset of HTTP/2 usage surviving translation through HTTP/1.1 should be maximized.

Um, no. Collapsing the two namespaces into one is a security nightmare along the lines of <https://www.owasp.org/index.php/HTTP_Request_Smuggling>.

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

Received on Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:53:53 UTC