Re: [Webpush] Use Case related to subscription sets

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 23 November 2015 23:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Webpush] Use Case related to subscription sets
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On 23 November 2015 at 13:46, Brian Raymor <Brian.Raymor@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Perhaps the combination of "user agent decides" with "push service *encourages*"
> by limiting concurrent HTTP/2 streams is the potential compromise.

That's where I'm headed.  Though I'm also adding "spec *encourages*"
by using the word MUST.  I don't think that we get any gains for the
important scenarios if we don't provide at least some encouragement to
aggregate into a set.

I've added text to the PR that explains what the push service might do
to punish user agents that don't allow for aggregation.  It's relying
on the same magical anti-DoS stuff again, which is hardly ever
perfect, but often adequate in practice.

Here I expect that looking at the connection will work to catch
genuine but innocent mistakes.  The bad guys are always going to be
harder to pin down.