TLS ALPN Proposal

Weijun Wang weijun.wang at oracle.com
Sat May 23 00:05:15 UTC 2015



On 5/23/2015 3:20 AM, Simone Bordet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Bernd Eckenfels <ecki at zusammenkunft.net> wrote:
>> I would suggest to make this encoded in latin1 instead. This is
>> supposed to be a 8bit clean encoding (and will be compatible to all
>> ASCII only strings). It is still ugly and needs to be documanted
>> cleanly that the string you get back might not be a string at all.
>
> RFC 7301 hints that protocol string could be UTF-8 encoded:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7301#section-6

But in the RFC the name is in uppercase and chars in string are all 
lowercases. So maybe the preferred impl will be like this?

  - Fields use String
  - on the wire UTF-8
  - Compare with equalsIgnoreCase()

--Max

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