Re: TAG work on SPDY

On 2011-09-26 19:04, Jim Gettys wrote:
> On 09/26/2011 11:46 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2011-09-26 15:25, Jim Gettys wrote:
>>> ...
>>>       o lack of request #'s in responses, making out of order delivery
>>> problematic.
>>> ...
>>
>> Clarifying: server and intermediates are not supposed to re-order
>> responses.
>>
>> So is this about being able to better work around this kind of breakage?
>>
> Not just the breakage: given what web sites have evolved into, I can see
> what caused the breakage.  Getting things back into order (given a
> complex back end) is hard.
>
> And the server may have better information  than the client what matters
> to get first, conceivably.

Me confused :-)

Out-of-order delivery is not allowed by RFC 2616 -- we should be clear 
about things that would be nice-to-have for debugging, and things that 
maybe should have been defined differently...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 26 September 2011 17:29:19 UTC