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Why not a DNS TXT record to enable? The TLS method seems so much more complicated.

• tptacek 15y ago
  If your goal is to cut RTTs out of a transaction, does moving an RTT from TLS to DNS help?
  • herf 15y ago
    oops, thought it might fetch all at once...a separate round trip wouldn't make sense. (Granted, you're maybe doing a smaller hop to local DNS than to overseas SSL.)
  • JoachimSchipper 15y ago
    To be fair to herf, ANY queries might produce this information in one query. (Then again, they might silently omit all or part of the answer. Also, querying "bare" domains like example.org will produce unneeded records like SOA/NS/MX.)
• tonfa 15y ago
  If it requires something from website owners, you might as well wait for SPDY.
• tedunangst 15y ago
  If your solution to a problem is DNS TXT records, now you have two problems, as they say.