Re: Alt-Svc #71: Hints for Flushing

Proposal here:
  https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/commit/c592c6424f4b0cc1250cb417ceb2a7444fc23e1b


> On 4 Jun 2015, at 9:45 pm, Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com> wrote:
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> I think that this would be good as long as we treat it with hint level language.
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> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Erik Nygren <erik@nygren.org> wrote:
> I agree that this would be quite helpful, especially for the use-case for splitting off traffic that supports SNI to a separate alt-svc.  Other corner cases with TLS-terminating middleboxes, I can't see why those alt-svc assignments couldn't persist past network changes.
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> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Ryan Hamilton <rch@google.com> wrote:
> I'd love to see an extension like this!
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> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
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> > On 2 Jun 2015, at 2:13 am, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 31 May 2015 at 18:06, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> >> This is an interesting discussion to have in concert with #69 regarding extensibility; if we make services containing unrecognised extensions must-ignore, it would make this sort of thing much chattier; the above as an after-the-fact extension would need to be this on the wire:
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> >>  Alt-Svc: h2=":443"; ma=3600, h2=":443"; ma=3600; persist
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> > Yep, but if we add it now, that concern is less of a problem because
> > servers can send it will a reasonable expectation of it being
> > understood.
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> Absolutely. But, there's always the next extension…
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