Re: Framing and control-frame continuations

On 07/02/2013, at 10:44 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:

> * Adrien W. de Croy wrote:
>> 64k seems too small.  4GB looks to have issues with interleaving and HOL 
>> blocking.  I can see some simple server authors thinking "cool I can 
>> send this 4GB file in one frame".  Which may be cool or not depending on 
>> what else is going on (e.g. may choke a down-stream proxy trying to 
>> interleave multiple responses - although I guess it could just repackage 
>> it).
> 
> I do recall that over in hybi (Websocket) being able to send huge frames
> via sendfile-style APIs was _extremely_ important to some participants.

Yes, that was discussed at the F2F:
  https://github.com/http2/tmp_minutes/commit/81e8644a6826f41d7f17da88c3706d3ce4300c28#L0R899

Cheers,


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Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:51:15 UTC