Re: HTTP/2 Upgrade with content? from Martin Thomson on 2015-03-13 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2015)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:17:12 -0700
To: Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>
Cc: "Jason T. Greene" <jason.greene@redhat.com>, Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>, Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, Mike Bishop <Michael.Bishop@microsoft.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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On 13 March 2015 at 15:15, Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com> wrote:
> Consider an app that performs some kind of streaming translation of the
> posted content into the response.  It will be reading chunks of the HTTP/1.1
> response and sending that as frames of HTTP/2 response.  Eventually the
> stream/connection "window" will be consumed, but a window update frame will
> not be able to be sent because the HTTP/1.1 response is not complete.

Fair point; I hadn't thought the flow control aspects through fully.

Received on Friday, 13 March 2015 23:17:39 UTC