Re: #557: Intra-message HEADERS frames

On 23/07/2014 2:08 a.m., Mark Nottingham wrote:
> I don’t hear a strong direction on this issue from the WG, so I’m inclined to let the editor take the lead here unless strong opinions emerge (keeping in mind the changes to allow a non-final status code, which means the wording needs to be a bit different here).
> 
> The choices seem to be:
> 
> - PROTOCOL_ERROR upon a HEADERS where not expected

+1.

> 
> - ignore a HEADERS that’s not expected

-1.

IIRC, the presented use case for this has been to maintain checksums on
HTTP/1.1 chunked payloads. That is far better done as a checksum field
on DATA if the proponents of that want to push for it (or make an
extension for payload integrity checking). chunked checksums being a
hop-by-hop feature anyway which does not traverse middleware at all well
these days.

Amos

Received on Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:14:42 UTC