HTTP/2's flow control offers a bit of a solution here for mobile devices. Flow control operates on a credits/tokens scheme at both the connection level and the

HTTP/2's flow control offers a bit of a solution here for mobile devices. Flow control operates on a credits/tokens scheme at both the connection level and the stream level. A mobile client could use a low initial window size so that all new streams are limited in how much data they can send. The client can preemptively grant large flow control windows to streams that it requests, and retroactively grant additional credits to push streams that it decides it wants. The tradeoff is that you're introducing a round-trip for pushed resources to acknowledge that you want to receive the entire resource. That may or may not make sense, depending on the use case. http://http2.github.io/http2-spec/#FlowControl http://http2.github.io/http2-spec/#FlowControl