Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 3 (HTTP/3)
draft-ietf-quic-http-32
QUIC M. Bishop, Ed.
Internet-Draft Akamai
Intended status: Standards Track 20 October 2020
Expires: 23 April 2021
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 3 (HTTP/3)
draft-ietf-quic-http-32
Abstract
The QUIC transport protocol has several features that are desirable
in a transport for HTTP, such as stream multiplexing, per-stream flow
control, and low-latency connection establishment. This document
describes a mapping of HTTP semantics over QUIC. This document also
identifies HTTP/2 features that are subsumed by QUIC, and describes
how HTTP/2 extensions can be ported to HTTP/3.
Note to Readers
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Working Group information can be found at https://github.com/quicwg;
source code and issues list for this draft can be found at
https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/labels/-http.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Prior versions of HTTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2. Delegation to QUIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. HTTP/3 Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1. Document Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2. Conventions and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Connection Setup and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1. Draft Version Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2. Discovering an HTTP/3 Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2.1. HTTP Alternative Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2.2. Other Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3. Connection Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.4. Connection Reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4. HTTP Request Lifecycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.1. HTTP Message Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.1.1. Field Formatting and Compression . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.1.2. Request Cancellation and Rejection . . . . . . . . . 17
4.1.3. Malformed Requests and Responses . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.2. The CONNECT Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.3. HTTP Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.4. Server Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5. Connection Closure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.1. Idle Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.2. Connection Shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.3. Immediate Application Closure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.4. Transport Closure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6. Stream Mapping and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6.1. Bidirectional Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6.2. Unidirectional Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6.2.1. Control Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.2.2. Push Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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