RE: HTTP proposal for UDP proxying: HELIUM

Martin Thomson:

>If you take the rules from h2 directly, then yes, there is no option to coalesce,
>because the client remains ignorant of the DNS records that might point to the
>same IP address.  However, the ORIGIN frame relieves the client of that
>constraint and would allow for coalescing in that case.

That's a great observation thanks. The ability to coalesce a HTTP connection, that itself could be used to carry "non-HTTP" traffic (subject to a mechanism that allows that to happen) is a pretty powerful capability.

Lucas


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Received on Friday, 13 July 2018 14:24:58 UTC