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Re: [TLS] Questions about ALPN

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Tue, 15 April 2014 22:18 UTC

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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:17:51 -0700
From: Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com>
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Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 15 April 2014 11:58, Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can you please explain why you want things to fail and in what
>> circumstances?
> 
> Does HNTP provide an exact replica of the protocol contract that TCP
> provides HTTP/2?  If not, I want to know.  If it is exact in all the
> ways that matter, might as well use "h2".

If you foresee only ever defining "h2" (meaning secure HTTP2 over TLS)
and "h2c" (meaning unsecured HTTP2), then why even mention TCP at all?

I'm fine with the proposal if there will only be two different strings
that lead to HTTP2 and most protocols need only one identifier.

Mike

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