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[jsr369-experts] Re: [servlet-spec users] Re: Call for discussion: API for apps do discover protocol version/transport?

From: Mark Thomas <markt_at_apache.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:14:57 +0100

On 14/09/2016 05:17, Stuart Douglas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Greg Wilkins <gregw_at_webtide.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 14 September 2016 at 12:13, Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> GW> So I think we are good as is.
>>>
>>> But what about knowing if the connection was upgraded. Is that not
>>> worth knowing, or can it be derived using existing API?
>>
>>
>> I'm struggling to think of a use-case for an app that needs a standard API
>> to know the exact connect method used to establish h2. If such a
>> use-case does exist, then how is it going to handle the many deployment
>> scenarios where the connection establishment method used by the client is
>> hidden from the container?
>>
>> So it is mostly not worth knowing, and when it is worth knowing it will be
>> so deployment specific that a standard API will be of little help.
>
> +1 I think that what we have now is sufficient.

+1

Mark