Re: ALPN support for GnuTLS connections

[Richard Stallman]

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  > ALPN allows the client application to tell the server which protocol it
  > wants to have.
  > So that e.g. instead of first opening a connection to a http server that
  > defaults 1.1 and then switching to 2.0 you can immediately open a
  > connection with 2.0.
  > The benefit being besides the faster establishment of the connection is
  > that the client can stop if the requested connection can't be
  > established before the initial connection.

That makes sense to me.

So I guess that the various tasks you mentioned to me
have nothing substantial to do with ALPN, but they talk
via some protocol which has various versions, and they
use ALPN to do that.  Is that right?

Thanks for explaining.

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