Re: #541: CONTINUATION

On 5 Jul 2014, at 5:44 pm, K.Morgan@iaea.org wrote:

> That doesn't help for direct h2c communications (ie without upgrade).
> I know it seems far-fetched right now, but it's conceivable that http/2 might actually replace http/1.x, in which case upgrade would no longer be needed and there would be no way to pre-negotiate the settings for a low-resource alpn token.

If you’re doing a prior knowledge connection <http://http2.github.io/http2-spec/#known-http>, you still need to pre-arrange what protocol you’re going to speak; that gives you an opportunity to figure out which ALPN token to use.


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