Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-16.txt> (Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2) to Proposed Standard

> client opens a stream indicating its interested in an event stream.. the
> server may/may not provide a response but it leaves that stream open for the
> duration of time it might push. When it pushes events (represented by a
> request/response pair) it associates the new even streams with the client
> stream. There can be N of these events in parallel, which makes it
> considerably nicer than long polling. Whenever the server decides it is done
> pushing things it can close the odd stream.. or the client can stream reset
> the odd stream if it decides its done first.
Bravo. Very succinct explanation of how to implement what people often
think push would do.

Good job, Patrick!

Received on Wednesday, 7 January 2015 02:57:50 UTC