Well some authentication mechanisms are per-connection, not per-request
(such as NTLM). Just make sure that this does not get co-mingled with
requests that are supposed to be anonymous.

Christian

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 2:29 PM Patrick McManus <[email protected]> wrote:

> The history predates me, I presume it was a well intentioned privacy rule -
> but partitioning according to anon/non-anon is rather pointless- the peer
> can correlate by address or dns-cookies just as effectively if it wishes
> to.. and as you point out this partition is really painful - it has both
> performance implications and often leads to hard to explain outcomes.
> (fonts interacting with preconnect were a good pain poiint to highlight).
> I'd be happy to get rid of the separation and doing so in gecko would be
> trivial. (the anon flag is part of the hash key, it would just need to be
> removed.)
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 2:07 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > As I understand things we pick connections to reuse based on an origin
> and
> > a credentials flag (set/unset). This got a little bit more complicated
> with
> > HTTP/2 as it's not just an origin A, but also any other "origin" entries
> in
> > A's certificate, but that's not what I'm after.
> >
> > What I'd like to understand is the history behind using credentials as a
> > key and what we can do to possibly change it. We now have some features
> > that don't send credentials by default (even same-origin), such as
> <script
> > type=module> and fetch(), and as a result you get two same-origin HTTP/2
> > connections. This plays poorly with HTTP/2 push.
> >
> > A standards-related discussion on this is hosted here:
> > https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/341. (Fetch also defines when
> > connections get reused (though it doesn't define the HTTP/2 certificate
> > bits yet).)
> >
> > (As an aside, having someone from the networking team watch whatwg/fetch
> > and give feedback would really help that work progress faster.
> > Alternatively, if you give me some GitHub IDs to ping when I get stuck
> that
> > could work too. Much appreciated.)
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