Firefox HTTP/2 Trailers support
Alexander Litus <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:53:06 +0200
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Hello,
I've asked a question about Firefox HTTP/2 Trailers support here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1090654
The question:
HTTP/2 draft-14 Section 8.1. allows for an optional HEADERS frame
> ("trailers") following DATA frames in the HTTP request and response.
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-14#section-8.1
>
> This is required to support implementations like gRPC in the browser (and
> future protocols built on HTTP/2).
>
> Does Firefox currently support HTTP Trailers or just ignores them? Thanks.
>
And I've got a response:
apparently trailers are not supported right now in firefox (or rather
> silently discarded) - they get read in order to maintain the appropriate
> state in the header compressor, but then they are just thrown away.
I have another question: does Firefox team has plans for handling trailers
to fully support gRPC?
Please see gRPC protocol:
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/PROTOCOL-HTTP2.md
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Best,
Alexander Litus
Software Engineer | TeamDev, Ltd.
[email protected] | www.teamdev.com