- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:11:06 +0100
- To: Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>
- Cc: Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
* Roberto Peon wrote: >The idea of a 16 bit field is that it is small enough to require >implementors to get the continuation case correct because it is will occur >infrequently, as opposed to larger values where implementations are likely >to skimp and/or suffer from backup-generator style problems where the >codepath is exercised so rarely that bugs in it are not found and fixed. >Additionally, with a 16bit field a naive implementation is more likely not >to completely screw things up w.r.t. allowing interleaving in response to >new requests or streams. (I rather agree with the reasoning here, but 16 bit is a bit small...) -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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