Re: HTTP/2 GREASE, Results, and Implications

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Thu, 31 October 2019 19:28 UTC

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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 03:20:15PM -0400, David Benjamin wrote:
> Ah, gotcha. Yeah, we don't have a canary release for Linux sadly. Just
> stable, beta, and dev. And, indeed, it looks like 80 hasn't made its way to
> dev yet. :-/
> https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/releases?platform=Linux
> 
> That said, it looks like we implemented GREASE for HTTP/2 quite a long time
> ago. The experiment just wasn't enabled until now. You should be able to
> force it on via a command-line flag on any remotely recent version. I'm not
> sure off-hand what the incantation is. Bence?

Ah that would be great, I've been wondering the same as well but found
no info on this. And running chrome --help says "no man page" so I must
confess I've already met more verbose software :-)

Willy