Re: alternative service probability parameter

On 2015-05-08 15:37, Bence Béky wrote:
> Hello httpbis,
>
> This is a heads up about a parameter that we have been using in
> Alternate-Protocol headers, and are planning to use in Alt-Svc headers
> and ALTSVC frames.  It is "p=" (probability), that Google servers emit
> and Chrome observes.  This takes a numerical value between 0.0 and 1.0
> inclusive, and tells the client to only observe the alternative
> service with that given probability (and ignore it otherwise).  This
> parameter can be used for finer grade load balancing, for gradual
> rollout of a new protocol, and for performance testing.
>
> My understanding is that the current HTTP Alternative Services draft
> at https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-alt-svc-06.html#rfc.section.3
> permits parameters other than "ma=", therefore using a customary
> parameter is conformant to the specification.
> ...

The syntax allow is, but we haven't described how new ones can be defined.

-> opened <https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/69>

Best regards, Julian

Received on Saturday, 9 May 2015 16:00:14 UTC