Re: should we specify HTTP/1.1 now that HTTP2 is out?

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 04 October 2017 00:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: should we specify HTTP/1.1 now that HTTP2 is out?
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Michael Richardson
<mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> Ideally, I'd reference a document which was something like "restricted http2"
> or "http2 dumbed down to http1.1" or "http2 lite" or some such.
> That document would get updated now and then to accomodate new issues.

We do have a draft of that document, but it would need more effort to
turn into something that could be referenced.  See
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-montenegro-httpbis-h2ot-profile

> We need one request to go through first, and then more or less, the rest
> could be handled concurrently.

So wait for the first request to complete before making the others.
I'm not sure that I see the problem here.