[Openid-specs-ab] OpenID Provider Commands - proposed WG specification

[Dick Hardt]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM Michael Schwartz via Openid-specs-ab <
openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net> wrote:

> Dick,
>
> Thank you for posting this [github url](
> https://dickhardt.github.io/openid-provider-commands/openid-provider-commands-1_0-00.html#name-streaming-request)
> for the formatted draft!
>

I needed to post the content for it to be in IPR contribution. Oversight on
my part not also posting the link. What I sent to the list was nicely
formatted as well -- but the mail server cleaned that up for me!


>
> I'm probably misunderstanding something about SSE too... :-)
>
> Section 6.3 of your draft says:
>
>    - Connection with the value of keep-alive to keep the connection open.
>
> This header is part of the SSE spec. Pretty much every HTTP request now
has keep-alive. It is the default value in HTTP/1.1


> So while I agree that there is no content until the server has something
> to send, there is a file descriptor (in the old days) somewhere on the
> server that is keeping track of that connection.  I don't know if that's a
> consideration anymore. Maybe there aren't that many RPs out there anyway,
> and this is negligible. Is this connection guaranteed to persist in the
> infrastructure?
>

Servers just keep the connection around for a little while so it can be
reused if there is another connection soon. Somewhat configurable across
servers. Done for all HTTP/1.1 calls.


>
> - Mike
>
>
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