Re: #555: frame synchronization

In message <CABkgnnVbn7LYmbB3y=FxxhsnVAtvXjJ5+iZj4QKpWCftocn-eQ@mail.gmail.com>
, Martin Thomson writes:

>As I already said, I don't see any need. Desync ends pretty quickly with a
>GoAway.

The question is if we should do something to make sure that it happens
faster and with more certainty than "pretty quickly" ?

Has anybody tried to do a fuzzer-test to see how robust their
implementation is for an almost correctly working peer ?

>> <https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/555>
>>
>> Anyone with thoughts on this?

>> > Has anybody considered frame-desynchronization ?
>> >
>> > The framing layer has neither pattern, checksum or sequence numbers
>> > to help us tell if the sender and receiver have become mis-synchronized,

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Received on Monday, 21 July 2014 08:21:00 UTC