TLS extension needed for HTTP/2.0

[Zhong Yu]

Hi, can someone shed some light on the questions? Any information will
be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Zhong Yu

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> HTTP/2.0 draft (based on google's SPDY) requires the use of a new TLS
> extension (ALPN), see
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04#section-3.3
>
> The current javax.net.ssl API does not support that, so it'll be a
> problem for someone trying to implement the HTTP/2.0 draft on Java
> platform. Is there a remedy to that?
>
> If javax.net.ssl needs further development to be able to support ALPN,
> would you give a rough estimate on when it could be released? And
> would it be back ported to earlier versions of Java?
>
> What kind of API change do you envision that's necessary to expose
> ALPN negotiation process to applications?
>
> Note that HTTP/2.0 is in very early stage; it's possible that the
> requirement of ALPN could be relaxed if there's difficulty to
> implement it on popular platforms; see this thread:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013JulSep/0425.html
>
> Thank you very much,
> Zhong Yu