Re: HEADERS and flow control

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:32:25AM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
> +1
> 
> Even with the current header compression, there is no reason to prevent
> intervening DATA frames, or to omit HEADER frames from the
> scheduling/queuing algorithms that clients and servers must implement
> for HTTP/2.  The only requirement based on the header compression
> algorithm that has been adopted is that there can only be a single set
> of HEADER frames in flight in either direction, and I don't think that
> is a big step beyond what is already required.

Well, this is probably fundamentially ill-defined question, but:

What are the semantics of DATA frames transmitted on stream with HEADER
block still active? If the HEADER is the first header block? If the HEADER
is subsequent HEADER block?


-Ilari

Received on Wednesday, 21 May 2014 15:54:20 UTC