Nottingham: Internet protocols are changing
Nottingham: Internet protocols are changing
Posted Jan 8, 2018 0:55 UTC (Mon) by immibis (subscriber, #105511)In reply to: Nottingham: Internet protocols are changing by buchanmilne
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To mitigate that, either the client could look up the host itself and validate the result using a key encode in the URL -or it could just ask the server at the specified IP whether there's a better IP (distributed DNS?).
Posted Jan 18, 2018 2:32 UTC (Thu)
by flussence (guest, #85566)
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Nottingham: Internet protocols are changing
This whole line of logic is going a bit off course, but there *is* a mechanism for suggesting different servers to clients (the Alt-Svc HTTP header, fairly recent addition too).