Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: HTTP Alternative Services Best Practices?

[Lucas Pardue <[e-mail]>]

Hi Cory,

I think your questions are probably good implementation-oriented ones but
less about BCP to my mind. If there is something worth documenting, my
instinct is a separate document that compliments RFC7838.

To answer:

On Tue, 17 Dec 2019, 22:46 Cory Nelson, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Two questions I had while implementing Alt-Svc, and ended up looking at
> other implementations for guidance:
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> Is it valid to have Alt-Svc: clear followed by, on another line, more
> Alt-Svc to replace the old services?
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RFC7838 says about Alt-Svc:

"The field value consists either of a list of values, each of which
indicates one alternative service, or the keyword "clear"."

So I think it is clear that it is invalid to have both clear and an
alt-value. But what might be less clear is the expected failure mode if
this does actually occur.

> Is it valid for an authority to extend their lease by sending an Alt-Svc
> for themselves?
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If you mean is it valid for a selected alternative to advertise itself and
therefore keep itself fresh, then yes, the alternative is fully
authoritative and I think that this is captured in the specification.

Cheers
Lucas

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