Re: Sending priority from a server from David Krauss on 2014-07-12 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2014)

From: David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 17:20:20 +0800
To: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <DE871813-CCE0-416F-9544-FB31B3AC0867@gmail.com>

On 2014–07–12, at 4:51 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote:

> Lets converse then:
> 
> client: HEADERS (s=1, p=999)
>  "I want this. top-priority!"
> 
> server: PUSH (s1 + s=2, p=4)
>   "s=1 comes with extras. I will send in background, real SLOW"
> 
> client: PRIORITY (s=2, p=999)
>  "I want those top-priority as well!"
> 
> 
> Seems reasonable information exchange. Still no obligation on the server
> to actually use the client hints.

Exactly. The server gets to default to whatever priority it likes, and the client still unconditionally gets the last word.

Received on Saturday, 12 July 2014 09:21:05 UTC