- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:10:32 +0000
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>, httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <BAB05EED-7215-46DD-9876-ACAB8D5FE5C0@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri tes: >> Would this be too evil ? >> >> If the underlying transport protocol advertises or negotiates >> a receive buffer size, such as the TCP window, Clients >> SHOULD NOT send HTTP requests larger than this size. >> >> This would allow really tiny implementations, such as Contiki, to >> inform the world about their limits. > >That ignores proxies; the window size is effectively hop-by-hop (from an >HTTP standpoint), and anyway this will cause people to complain about >layer violations. That is why it is only meant as a hint. -- 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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