Editorial Issue: Uniteral Stream Creation

James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Wed, 24 April 2013 22:19 UTC

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https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/73

The current draft (-02) current states: "Streams can be established
and used unilaterally."

Is this really the case? Can a server unilaterally decide to start
sending unsolicited stream frames to a client without an associated
PUSH_PROMISE or HTTP Request?