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Re: p1: Upgrade ordering (possible HTTP/2 impact)

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Sat, 20 April 2013 07:14 UTC

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On 20/04/2013, at 5:10 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 02:07:57PM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> p1 section 6.7 defines the Upgrade header, but no where does it say anything
>> about relative preference.
>> 
>> Should we define (or at least allow) for the ordering to be semantically
>> significant? It seems to me that if we end up using this, and there are a few
>> different variants of HTTP/2 (e.g., "normal" vs "mobile"), it'd be nice to
>> rely on ordering here.
> 
> Indeed it could be quite useful! RFC2817 does not suggest anything concerning
> multiple values in the Upgrade header field for the request message, it only
> suggests that the response describes the protocol stack (eg: TLS/1.0, HTTP/1.1).
> 
> So I'm wondering if it would not be a abit awkward to have a different
> definition of this header field depending on the direction. Some more thinking
> is needed on this I suppose.


We're already there; in the current form, it describes the protocols the client can upgrade to in requests, whereas in 101 responses it describes the (single) protocol the server *is* upgrading to.



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