Re: WebSocket2

[Ilari Liusvaara <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 02:10:32PM +0300, Kari Hurtta wrote:
> Ilari Liusvaara <[e-mail]>: (Sun Oct  2 13:15:48 2016)
> > On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 11:00:29AM +0300, Kari hurtta wrote:
> > > 
> > > (A,B) Is there http  error code which tells that
> > > that it was unsuppoted :scheme (and not other 
> > > error, for example wrong :path) ?
> > > 
> > > That is needed that client (A) orPbroxy (B) can
> > > switch Websocket (RFC 6455) negotated over
> > > HTTP/1.1
> > 
> > I don't think there is (and that's a part of the problem) with current
> > scheme handling.
> > 
> > There are probably quite a bit of servers that just plain ignore the
> > scheme in request.
> 
> Hmm. Was reason why
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hirano-httpbis-websocket-over-http2-01
> 
> used SETTINGS frame with SETTINGS_WEBSOCKET_CAPABLE parameter ?
> Seems not mention that reason. 
> 
> That means that server needs send SETTINGS_WEBSOCKET_CAPABLE = 1
> to client indicating that server handles :scheme = ws
> ( and on that draft SETTINGS_WEBSOCKET_CAPABLE = 1
>   was sent from client to server. )
 
Well, I think the following would work and avoid SETTINGS:

-> :method ws2
-> :scheme wss
-> :authority foo.example
-> :path /bar
-> <optional extra parameters, e.g. compression support>
<- :status 200
<- sec-ws2-ack 1
<- <optional negotiated extras>

That is, include one header where server acknowledges that it is
Websockets2 capable. No need for crypto in negotiation because the
target is already known to be HTTP/2 capable, instead of just known to
be TCP capable as in case with Websockets(1).


And unsuccessful request would elict a HTTP response code:
- 405 for endpoint not supporting Websockets2
- 404 for endpoit does not exist
- 403 for "I don't want to talk to you"
- 401 for "identify yourself".
<And possibly others>


As for 301/302/307/308 responses, redirect across schemes would be
error (channel open failed). And one would need to be very careful about
redirects out of server's authority (probably channel open failed).


-Ilari