Re: Pseudo end-to-end connections considered harmful

• From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 07:11:17 -0700
• To: Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de>
• Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CABkgnnUcRDeRd_KAqRZBSyvbgq2-D7nOfjAOpOemGVgx7YCO=Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 24 July 2014 06:22, Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de> wrote:
> When a http2 browser is using TLS then it should use a single end-to-end
> connection and refrain from open any further connections. The server is the
> endpoint and is therefore not allowed to forward the request. Any proxy /
> gateway must mark responses with a via header and http2 clients using a TLS
> connection must close the connection if they discover such a via header.

I think that there are other solutions that stand a better chance of
achieving the goal:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/

Received on Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:11:45 UTC