Gemini ALPN ID

[Philip Linde]

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 23:32:41 +0000
colecmac at protonmail.com wrote:

> It seems like a hack that just exists so that HTTP2 can work
> efficiently while still keeping the old http:// scheme.

Agreed. The client already knows that it has accessed a gemini:// URI.
The server knows what the client is asking for. There is no need change
protocol from that point, thus no ALPN necessary. From what I
understand, ALPN was invented (by Google) pretty much just for clients
and servers to decide early whether to user HTTP2 or not. For as long
as there's no Gemini 3.11 or whatever, there's nothing to negotiate.

-- 
Philip
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