Re: h2 use of Upgrade from Martin Thomson on 2014-09-03 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2014)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:23:53 -0700
To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnXe+KCTphqsoCnFraFxzHqYxY=XzQG6cK5+EZ_yhODkVQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2 September 2014 16:02, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:
> But that's just one alternative.  We could also simply tunnel the
> HTTP/1.1 response back as a Headers+END_STREAM, which might be needed
> for some unknown extensions if they already abuse OPTIONS *.

That was the thought.  Having special logic to detect OPTIONS requests
and then not expect a final response seems fraught.

Received on Wednesday, 3 September 2014 00:24:21 UTC