Re: [hybi] HELLO frames (was Re: It's time to ship)

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Sun, 09 January 2011 23:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] HELLO frames (was Re: It's time to ship)
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On 10.01.2011 00:46, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:42:33AM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 10.01.2011 00:24, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>> ...
>>> In fact I'd be more worried about load balancers and content switches
>>> in general. They have to support 100 because of the very common
>>> "Expect: 100-Continue" that is present in many POST requests, and it's
>>> highly likely that they'll process 101 as a 100 just as haproxy did,
>>> because 101 was part of RFC2817 and not 2616.
>>> ...
>>
>> This is incorrect, see
>> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.10.1.2>.
>
> OK, but that's not what I'd call a definition. It's just as little verbose
> as CONNECT, it lets one imagine it's just to use a new HTTP version. Both
> were given an example for the first time in 2817 in my opinion.

Well, there's also the text in 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.14.42>.

So... we recently adopted language from 2817 into HTTPbis; could you 
please check that, and provide feedback to the WG if you feel we need to 
improve what we have?

Best regards, Julian