- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:00:12 +0000
- To: Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
-------- In message <CAH_y2NHyq=tr4VrQQbFs2CbopC4u6CR1V8b0_0ftG9w+SdrbJQ@mail.gmail.com> , Greg Wilkins writes: >I am not suggesting that we redefine HTTP/1 > >I'm saying that in the brand new http2 handshake that we are defining, >there is no need to support weak ciphers and old protocols. If clients >wish to talk weak ciphers to old protocols, they are free to retry >connections using the existing http/1 protocol unchanged. It's a really bad idea to try to cram a political agenda down peoples throats using artifical and unenforceable tools. Not only does it never actually work in the first place, it invariably ruins the tools universality, portability and interoperability that people hack in workarounds. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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