- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 05:59:01 +0000
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <F38E04EB-CF59-451B-B080-7ADE7424F258@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri tes: 1) Prefer a) 2) No to b). The lack of upfront indication of compressed header size puts the DoS and memory management trouble where we least can afford it from a performance point of view. The only quasi-sensible argument for fragmented header transmission I have heard pertains to server -> client communication at one particular very well-funded website. I have not seen a shred of evidence that "header-streaming" is relevant to any request in client->server direction where our main DoS/performance problems lie. Imposing performance and DoS resistance costs on everybody else for the sake of this one website makes no sense. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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