Re: alpn identifiers (not again!) from Martin Thomson on 2015-06-10 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2015)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:06:40 -0700
To: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnVyzh3_PnSDw=vD57E3qrcWYWv5vY-y6Muz1pPzbFRNEg@mail.gmail.com>

On 10 June 2015 at 02:40, Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de> wrote:
> The server may offer ALPN with DTLS and what will the client send? "h2".

It would send h2dtls: the version of HTTP/2 that runs over DTLS.  It
would be different from the one that runs over TLS in several crucial
ways, so it does need a new identifier (I mean, you could use other
information to disambiguate, but why do that when new identifiers are
cheap).

Received on Wednesday, 10 June 2015 16:07:11 UTC