Thanks that was exactly what I was thinking about actually. But, in that
case, we never use server-push, right? Choosing between server-hints and
server-push should be a decision driven by per-application benchmark?

2015-03-31 15:37 GMT+02:00 Simone Bordet <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Guillaume Drouet <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Can you explain why a hint should be preferred to a "primary" resource? I
> > don't really undertsand.
>
> I did not say that a hint is preferred to a primary resource.
>
> What I mean by:
>
> GET /primary.html HTTP/2
> HTTP2-Push: hint
>
> is the client telling the server: "GET me /primary.html. If it happens
> that primary.html has associated resources that you can push, then
> please don't push them to me, but send me back hints in the form of
> Link headers".
> The response would be:
>
> HTTP/2 200
> Link: </css/styles.css>; rel=prefetch
> Link: </js/jquery.js>; rel=prefetch
> Link: </css/background.png>; rel=prefetch
> Content-Length: 65536
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
> ...
>
> The client would receive the headers, parse them, and can prefetch the
> resources (or look at its cache) before it actually receives the HTML
> content that defines those resources.
>
> If the server sends, for example, etag information in the Link header,
> the client may do even more precise decisions.
>
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