Re: [Webpush] Non-blocking comments on -05

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:09 AM RUELLAN Herve <Herve.Ruellan@crf.canon.fr>
wrote:

> Hi Kit,
>
> On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 00:01 -0700, Kit Cambridge wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > First, I'd like to echo Peter's "thank you". I'm very grateful for all
> your work in putting this standard together and marshaling feedback, here
> and on GitHub! In addition to the comments from Peter, JR, and Hervé, I
> have a few questions and suggestions. None of them block the WGLC.
> >
> > In section 4.1, I'm not clear what "unable to receive push messages that
> are aggregated for the lifetime of the subscription" means. If the UA is
> forwarding requests, could it still disaggregate messages sent to a
> subscription set before delivering them to the other clients?
> >
>
> The use case here is that the user agent is acting as a proxy for
> another client for monitoring a subscription. This can be for example a
> camera using a mobile phone to monitor its subscription. The
> subscription should be linked to the client and not the user agent to
> allow the client to use another user agent as a proxy without changing
> the subscription.
>
> I just created a pull request for trying to make this use case clearer:
> https://github.com/webpush-wg/webpush-protocol/pull/96
>
>
I'm not very comfortable to adding features at this point - proxy mode and
migrating
subscription sets have quite a few implementation implications. I think
it's a useful
feature and use case - but it is very tricky. We can discuss it in separate
thread.

In particular the AS proxy is very unlikely to work with authentication.

Costin

> Cheers,
>
> Hervé
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