Re: Clarification on HPACK dynamic table size increases?

On 17 March 2015 at 07:31, Hervé Ruellan <herve.ruellan@crf.canon.fr> wrote:
>
>
> On 03/13/2015 12:49 AM, Mike Bishop wrote:
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>> 6.3 isn't saying that the value can only be reduced.  There is a maximum
>> that the decompressor has said it's willing to allow the compressor, and the
>> compressor is allowed to choose any value <= what the decompressor allows
>> it.  The wording there could be cleaner, since there's a maximum table size,
>> and a maximum value *for* the maximum table size.  :-(
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Daurnimator [mailto:quae@daurnimator.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 3:53 PM
>> To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
>> Subject: Clarification on HPACK dynamic table size increases?
>>
>> I'm working on implementing HPACK, wanted clarification on whether the
>> dynamic table can grow:
>>
>>> From 4.2
>>> This mechanism can be used to completely clear entries from the dynamic
>>> table by setting a maximum size of 0, which can subsequently be restored.
>>
>>
>> However, 6.3 has a MUST that the table may only be reduced in size:
>>>
>>> The new maximum size MUST be lower than or equal to the last value of the
>>> maximum size of the dynamic table.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daurn.
>>
>
> I agree that 4.2 isn't very clear, and that 6.3 is misleading. I just
> created a pull request for correcting 6.3:
> https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/729


Note that pull requests won't reach the spec.  We'll have to let the
RFC editor know what changes to make.  (And we need to be extra
careful to avoid breaking changes).

Received on Tuesday, 17 March 2015 16:44:13 UTC