Re: 9.2.2 Cipher fallback and FF<->Jetty interop problem

Cory Benfield <cory@lukasa.co.uk> Fri, 19 September 2014 09:28 UTC

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From: Cory Benfield <cory@lukasa.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: 9.2.2 Cipher fallback and FF<->Jetty interop problem
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On 19 September 2014 09:19, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> If some middleware is "the client" obeying HTTP/2 and rejecting all
> communication due to 9.2.2 that switch has no relevance.

Assuming I've understood you correctly this cannot be fixed without
removing 9.2.2. Any middleware that very strictly holds to 9.2.2 is
going to cause problems for clients/servers that do not.