Early Hints support (HTTP2 103 Status Code)

pecus

I'd like to use early hints on some pages served on an apache+php configuration. Early hints work similarly to HTTP2 push, and allow a browser to initiate download of resources early, while the actual HTML is still being generated or downloaded.

Is this possible with the current configuration? My understanding is that with the nginx proxy acts as SSL terminator and HTTP2 protocol wrapper, the communication with the apache server is on HTTP which would not allow configuring and sending the headers. Are there workarounds short of having a cloud worker handle traffic and rewrite responses?

peter

pecus Unfortunately, Early Hints support cannot be enabled directly with the current configuration of the Opalstack servers. You may want to consider using a third-party service like Cloudflare for a quick and easy way to take advantage of Early Hints (see https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/advanced-configuration/early-hints/).

pecus

Thanks Peter, I had the feeling this was the case.
I know Cloudflare can rewrite Link headers (which can be generated at the application level) as 103 Early Hint, but moving an entire domain to Cloudflare might not be for everyone.