HTTP/2 Gateway

[Nicholas Capo]

> Can you name such applications that are only able to talk HTTP/2?

The developers I support would like to use GRPC [1] which is HTTP/2 only.
I need to provide an HA/LB system to support them.
I'm not saying this would be easy to implement, only that I need it :-)

Thank you for your help,

Nicholas

[1] https://github.com/grpc/grpc



On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:07 AM CJ Ess <zxcvbn4038 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think what they are asking is to support the transport layer so that
> they don't have to support both protocols on whatever endpoint they are
> developing.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong and someone has grand plans about multiplexing requests to
> an upstream with http/2, but I haven't seen anyone ask for that explicitly
> yet.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Valentin V. Bartenev <vbart at nginx.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 14 December 2015 18:24:01 Nicholas Capo wrote:
>> > My specific use case is to support an HTTP/2 application behind a load
>> > balancer (reverse proxy).
>> >
>> > Also as a backend LB between services that could use a long running
>> HTTP/2
>> > connection to do their communication.
>> >
>> > Places where I need an LB, but also know that both ends would /prefer/
>> to
>> > use HTTP/2.
>> >
>>
>> Can you name such applications that are only able to talk HTTP/2?
>>
>> HTTP/2 isn't a better and shiny version of HTTP, it's completely
>> different transport layer with a number of disadvantages as well.
>>
>>   wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev
>>
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