Re: http+srv worth its own URI scheme? (ISSUE-49 schemeProtocols-49)

Hmm. What is the overhead if every web browser does an SRV record  
lookup?
Does it do it at the same time as the A record lookup?
Does it wait to get back no SRV record before trying an A record lookup?
Does this slow down HTTP operations at all?
(What is the effect on the economy of slowing down an HTTP lookup by  
each nanosecond?)

If one *were* to introduce the hassle of a new URI scheme then I would  
prefer to do something I had always wanted to do and remove the  
difference between the . and the /
as in:

web:org/ietf/internet-drafts/draft-jennings-http-srv-02.txt

where the algorithm would be to look for A record for www.ietf.org or  
an SRV for ietf.org,
or failing that the same up (www.org or SRV for org.) or down (record  
for www.internet-drafts.ietf.org or an SRV for internet- 
drafts.ietf.org) the tree.

I think http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-jennings-http-srv-02.txt
makes the mistake of introducing a very general and potentially useful  
protocol but designing it for the case of new API applications only is  
sub-optimal.
I agree the overhead of a new URI scheme is too great.  The cost of  
https: as a separate scheme has I think been great too, although I  
suspect one can argue a need for https: in way you can't for http+srv.

Tim


On 2009-02 -23, at 13:32, Dan Connolly wrote:

> srv records for web servers seems like a fine idea,
> long overdue; but I'm skeptical that it's worth a new URI scheme.
>
> I'm interested to know whether Noah and other TAG members
> have other opinions.
>
> cf. ISSUE-49 schemeProtocols-49
> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/49
>
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>> From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
>> Date: 23 February 2009 07:22:43 CEST
>> To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
>> Subject: Fwd: I-D Action:draft-jennings-http-srv-01.txt
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>>> Date: 23 February 2009 3:45:01 PM
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>>> Subject: I-D Action:draft-jennings-http-srv-01.txt
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>>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>>> directories.
>>>
>>>     Title           : DNS SRV Records for HTTP
>>>     Author(s)       : C. Jennings
>>>     Filename        : draft-jennings-http-srv-01.txt
>>>     Pages           : 7
>>>     Date            : 2009-02-22
>>>
>>> This document specifies a new URI scheme called http+srv which  
>>> uses a
>>> DNS SRV lookup to locate a HTTP server.  The http+srv scheme  
>>> operates
>>> in the same way as an http scheme but instead of the normal DNS A
>>> record lookup that a http scheme would use, it uses an DNS SRV
>>> lookup.  This memo also defines a https+srv scheme that operates in
>>> the same was a an https URI but uses DNS SRV lookups.
>>>
>>> The draft is being discussed on the apps-discuss@ietf.org list.
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