Re: #535: No 1xx Status Codes

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 09:18:49AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <CAH_y2NFTWTP4DMaxCNYs1JqOCM8V+iwS7KZOui7Vua+bNMvgbg@mail.gmail.com>, Greg Wilkins wri
> tes:
> 
> >I'd like to see 100 semantic supported in h2, 
> 
> But isn't it already supported via the per-stream windows ?
> 
> It's true that the sender can fill the initial per stream window
> before the receiver has a chance to decide if it wants the body
> or not, but I've never seen the 100-Continue as a mechanism to
> avoid sending a few unwanted tens of kilobyts, but rather to avoid
> sending unwanted mega- and gigabytes ?

It's also used a lot by webservices and other clients relying on
connection pools to ensure that a connection is still alive before
sending a non-idempotent request over it. I don't see what benefit
it could provide in HTTP/2 however since we can abort an upload in
progress.

Willy

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