Re: REFUSED_STREAM => RETRY_STREAM (editorial) was: RE: hpack table size 0

Hi Martin-

Can you be more specific? Section 8.1.4 says a refused stream is safe to retry. Is there a case where the stream should be refused but not retried? If so, perhaps both refused_stream & retry_stream should exist.

-Keith


> On Aug 1, 2014, at 18:25, "martin.thomson@gmail.com" <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1 August 2014 02:44,  <K.Morgan@iaea.org> wrote:
>> The definition of REFUSED_STREAM is somewhat contradictory with the
>> definition of the word refused. The word refused is defined as: indicate or
>> show that one is *not willing* to do something [1]. The definition of
>> REFUSED_STREAM in Section 7 references section 8.1.4 which says that a
>> REFUSED_STREAM is safe to retry. In other words the server is actually
>> *willing* to process the stream, but *currently unable* (e.g. because the
>> client overran settings and so the client needs to retry the stream with the
>> new settings).
>
> I'm not sure that I agree with this assessment.  Does anyone else?
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