On 13 March 2015 at 07:40, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> wrote: > Not accepting a POST immediately will be surprising to users. There are > quite a few users in the wild today that run curl like this: > > $ curl -d lotsofdata [URL] > > which thus sends a POST immediately with that data over HTTP/1.1, and the > same thing for HTTP/2 is almost identical, just adding asking for http2: > > $ curl --http2 -d lotsofdata [URL] > > which will make a POST with an Upgrade: h2c header and Expect: 100-continue. > > If a server then suddenly doesn't handle the POST + upgrade it puts a rather > arbitrary (from the client's perspective) block on when a client can or > cannot switch to HTTP/2 on such a server. Agreed from hyper's perspective as well. We can always add logic to only send HTTP upgrade headers on requests without bodies, but it feels like a weird restriction.Received on Friday, 13 March 2015 08:53:40 UTC
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