Re: HTTP router point-of-view concerns

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Sat, 13 July 2013 08:18 UTC

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In message <22115082-53F8-433C-9497-755800803B93@checkpoint.com>, Yoav Nir writ
es:

>This thread has forked to discussing session management. I'd like to call 
>your attention to the fact that in the past, this working group was consider
>ed too busy with HTTP/2.0 to spend time on things like session management
>or HTTP authentication schemes. For this reason it was suggested that the 
>WebSec working group work on session management. 

Then just call it a "flow-routing-label" here, and let WebSec figure
out for themselves that it can also be used as a session identifier.

There's no need to let procedural overhead get in the way of good ideas.

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