Re: Working Group Last Call: draft-ietf-httpbis-early-hints-02

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 07:22:58AM +0200, Wesley Oliver wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Bit late to the part once again.
> 
> Did any one consider, an external reference to preload resource manifest,
> which just contains a list of preloaded resources.
> The main difference is it is not inline, but external reference resource.
> this external reference resource could then be pushed
> via http 2.0 to the client, after which it can get to work. Obviously this
> would not work with http 1.1 though,
> so current solution proposed would be a better than this.

I don't see any benefit in doing it like this, it would sound less flexible.
In my opinion, providing something to make HTTP/1 to generate server push
when relayed via an HTTP/2 edge is really nice. You can imagine a server-side
reverse-proxy using this to add some CSS/JS/whatever the application doesn't
have to care about, and to provide them to the client when it's done over H2.
That's just an example, but I find the current design well balanced between
efficiency and flexibility.

Regards,
Willy

Received on Thursday, 18 May 2017 06:13:47 UTC