On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 10:23:46AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 08:04:57PM +0000, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 10:18:54PM +0300, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:07:49PM +0000, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 05:04:58PM +0000, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > > > > # HG changeset patch
> > > > > # User Alessandro Ghedini <alessandro@cloudflare.com>
> > > > > # Date 1518109032 0
> > > > > # Thu Feb 08 16:57:12 2018 +0000
> > > > > # Branch push-copy-headers
> > > > > # Node ID 4f7f42e6d13add2ab0c7a9654472bb74085181d1
> > > > > # Parent a49af443656f2b65ca5de9d8cad5594f44e18ff7
> > > > > HTTP/2: copy additional headers in the pushed requests.
> > > > >
> > > > > To ensure pushed requests are processed consistently with the original
> > > > > client request, some headers need to be copied from the original request
> > > > > into the pushed one.
> > > > >
> > > > > The headers currently copied are User-Agent, Accept, Accept-Language and
> > > > > Accept-Encoding.
> > > >
> > > > So, I'm not quite sure if this is the correct way to go about doing this, but
> > > > I think the issue is real and worth fixing, so I'd be happy to implement this
> > > > differently if you have alternative ideas.
> > >
> > > Could you please elaborate more on "the issue is real"?
> >
> > Right, sorry. Essentially the problem is that origins may generate a different
> > responses dependning on these headers, and a pushed request may be processed
> > inconsistently from the original request if these headers are different (say,
> > stupid example, if the client requests a specific language, the main request
> > may get a response in one language, and the pushed one in another).
> >
> > Additionally things like compression wouldn't work for pushed requests, which
> > is not optimal.
> >
> > There are of course other headers that could influence the origin's response,
> > but this somewhat minimal list of standard headers seemed like a good start.
> >
> > FWIW, other server push implementations like Apache's mod_http2, h2o (used
> > in production by Fastly) and Cloudflare's closed-source implementation, all
> > behave like this, and have done so for years, without any apparent issue.
>
> Akamai copies User-Agent and Accept-Encoding, but sets "Accept: */*",
> and doesn't copy/set Accept-Language, on pushes requests:
> https://http2.akamai.com
>
> Pushing "Accept: */* looks redundant, as
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.3.2
> says that "A request without any Accept header field implies that the
> user agent will accept any media type in response.".
>
> h2o seems to blindly copy the headers you mentioned, including Accept
> from the original request, which is obviously wrong:
>
> : [ 1.239] recv (stream_id=13) :method: GET
> : [ 1.239] recv (stream_id=13) :scheme: https
> : [ 1.239] recv (stream_id=13) :authority: h2o.examp1e.net
> : [ 1.239] recv (stream_id=13) :path: /search/jquery-1.9.1.min.js
> : [ 1.239] recv (stream_id=13) accept: text/html
> : [ 1.239] recv (stream_id=13) accept-encoding: [...]
> : [ 1.239] recv (stream_id=13) user-agent: [...]
> : [ 1.239] recv (stream_id=13) accept-language: [...]
> : [ 1.239] recv PUSH_PROMISE frame <length=207, flags=0x04, stream_id=13>
> : ; END_HEADERS
> : (padlen=0, promised_stream_id=2)
>
> https://http2.golang.org/serverpush only sets the minimally required
> fields, as we currently do.
>
> Can't test IIS, but its API allows setting additional headers to push:
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/get-started/whats-new-in-iis-10/http2-on-iis#what-about-push
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpresponse.pushpromise(v=vs.110).aspx
>
> Can't tell for Cloudflare as I can't find a working site on it that
> uses HTTP/2 with push enabled, maybe due to this:
> https://community.cloudflare.com/t/is-http-2-server-push-disabled/5577

Server push is enabled by default for all Cloudflare sites that also have
HTTP/2 enabled. You can test with e.g. https://sigsegv.ninja : User-Agent,
Accept-Encoding and Accept-Language are copied, but not Accept.

Cheers
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