Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-httpbis-h2-websockets-06: (with COMMENT)

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

Eric Rescorla has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-httpbis-h2-websockets-06: No Objection

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COMMENTS
S 4.
>         indicating the desired protocol to be spoken on the tunnel created
>         by CONNECT.  The pseudo-header is single valued and contains a
>         value from the HTTP Upgrade Token Registry defined by [RFC7230].
>   
>      o  On requests bearing the :protocol pseudo-header, the :scheme and
>         :path pseudo-header fields MUST be included.

You should say what the path means.


S 4.
>   
>      o  On requests bearing the :protocol pseudo-header, the :authority
>         pseudo-header field is interpreted according to Section 8.1.2.3 of
>         [RFC7540] instead of Section 8.3 of [RFC7540].  In particular the
>         server MUST NOT make a new TCP connection to the host and port
>         indicated by the :authority.

I was sort of able to make sense of this, but it's kind of confusing.
Perhaps you could say a word about it.




S 5.
>      the GET-based request in [RFC6455] and is used to process the
>      WebSockets opening handshake.
>   
>      The scheme of the Target URI [RFC7230] MUST be "https" for "wss"
>      schemed WebSockets and "http" for "ws" schemed WebSockets.  The
>      websocket URI is still used for proxy autoconfiguration.

Just to be clear, you are saying ":scheme" must be https or http?