Reverse HTTP

[Michael Toomim]

This talk is happening at IETF on Friday before Rahul and mine in the HTTP Group meeting:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/slides-118-httpbis-sessb-reverse-http/

It lets a HTTP client connect a server — but then reverse the roles, so that the server does the GET request to the client, and the client responds with the resource body.

This is being proposed as a way to have your server sit behind a firewall (like on a mac mini at home) and server pages to cloudflare that then actually serves the pages to the public.

But in general, it seems like a step towards a P2P HTTP!

Michael