- From: Erik Nygren <erik@nygren.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 15:40:12 -0400
- To: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAKC-DJivd-h_H-oOznjTN8=so2zQOhbwuWFkD9hpgvLTqs-WnA@mail.gmail.com>
In some recent discussions, it has come up that we don't clearly specify whether multiple schemes (eg, http and https) can share a single connection. For example, if www.example.com has a valid certificate for www.example.com then by the reading of rfc7540 a client could potentially use a single connection for http://www.example.com/ and https://www.example.com/ By the reading of rfc7540, it also seems like if www.evil.com resolves to the same IP address as www.example.com (which www.example.com has no control over) a client might be willing/able to send requests over the www.example.com connection? This seems like it has the potential for confusion. For example, if www.example.com is using client cert auth. Or if a server is distinguishing HTTP vs HTTPS based on port number as described as a risk in draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-encryption and discussed here. There also seem like some potential attacks that become easier if a client is making HTTP requests over HTTP/2 sharing a connection with HTTPS. (For example, side-channel attacks between HTTP and HTTPS seem easy here, and there might be some compression based attacks.) Am I alone in thinking this connection sharing (which servers can't really control today outside of returning a 421 for HTTP-scheme requests) is a bad idea? Some things seem worth considering here: * The ORIGIN frame helps here as an origin can list only supporting the " https://www.example.com" origin. * We likely want to have draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-encryption prohibit sharing requests for secure and non-secure schemes over a single connection, even if authenticated. Is there any other guidance we should be proposing on this front? For example, to discourage clients from doing this sharing and to encourage servers to return 421 if they see mixed schemes on a connection? Best, Erik
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