Re: How to stop receiving a pushed resource? (I-D Action: draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-01.txt)

[Roberto Peon <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I'd be interesting to hear what people running robots, etc. have to think
> about this.
>
> Also, it'd be REALLY nice to think about about what this means for
> responsive design; e.g., if I'm a mobile, I don't need the desktop
> stylesheet, and maybe not some of those images too. So, how does that work
> in a push world?
>

The same way one would in a non-push world-- determine if it is mobile and
serve the most appropriate content... :)
-=R

>
> Personally -- the most immediate problem I have with this is figuring out
> how to show push in REDbot :-/


> Cheers,
>
>
>
> On 22/01/2013, at 1:28 PM, Roberto Peon <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> > Push is simply better inlining, with prioritization and cancellation.
> >
> > So, if you don't want a push, you'd cancel the stream, wasting at worst
> one BDP worth of bandwidth, and at best near zero (since the push is
> announced while the main resource is loading).
> >
> > Note that if server push is disabled, then servers will inline resources
> which is strictly worse as it is impossible to prioritize or cancel (or
> cache) such, leading to *increased * bandwidth usage and latency.
> >
> > -=R
> >
> > On Jan 21, 2013 5:38 PM, "Frédéric Kayser" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > is this the mechanism clients should use to stop receiving pushed
> resources they already have in their local cache?
> > How are servers supposed to guess what to push or not? Is it be based on
> modification date, could the clients send some hints?
> >
> > Frédéric
> >
> > > 4.3.2.  Client implementation
> > >
> > >    When fetching a resource the client has 3 possibilities:
> > >
> > >       the resource is not being pushed
> > >
> > >       the resource is being pushed, but the data has not yet arrived
> > >
> > >       the resource is being pushed, and the data has started to arrive
> > >
> > >    When a SYN_STREAM and HEADERS frame which contains an Associated-To-
> > >    Stream-ID is received, the client must not issue GET requests for
> the
> > >    resource in the pushed stream, and instead wait for the pushed
> stream
> > >    to arrive.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >    To cancel individual server push streams, the client can issue a
> > >    stream error (Section 3.4.2) with error code CANCEL.  Upon receipt,
> > >    the server MUST stop sending on this stream immediately (this is an
> > >    Abrupt termination).
> >
> >
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
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