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From: Tristan Colgate <tcolgate@gmail.com>
To: Derek Upham <derek_upham@mailfence.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Support HTTP/2 in HTTP client
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:00:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPGZSG+GG4DrF-VgJ4neHb+H2ivcr4vKO9WvsCmEGLr+f+vyaQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9mkoab3.fsf@priss.frightenedpiglet.com>

http/2 is a substantially different protocol, it will take
considerable effort to support it, guile's client should only be
offering http/1.1 to the server.

On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 15:49, Derek Upham <derek_upham@mailfence.com> wrote:
>
> Companies like Google now respond to HTTP requests with HTTP 2.
> For example:
>
>   curl --silent --head https://www.google.com
>
> returns the first line
>
>   HTTP/2 200
>
> The Guile HTTP client code expects a “HTTP/x.y” structure, and
> treats this as an error.  This patch recognizes and handles
> “HTTP/2” on input and output.  HTTP version numbers don’t
> proliferate quickly, so the code uses a brute force approach for
> now.
>
>
> Derek
>
> --
> Derek Upham
> derek_upham@mailfence.com



-- 
Tristan Colgate-McFarlane
----
  "You can get all your daily vitamins from 52 pints of guiness, and a
glass of milk"



  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-31 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-31 14:42 [Patch] Support HTTP/2 in HTTP client Derek Upham
2020-03-31 15:00 ` Tristan Colgate [this message]
2020-04-01  1:21   ` Derek Upham
2020-04-01  7:24     ` Tristan Colgate
2020-04-07 14:39     ` Derek Upham

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