Amos, On 2013-07-11, at 6:08 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote: > ... >> here I don't think that will be much of the case, since HTTP/2 header encoding should still be a way smaller in bytes than HTTP/1.1 and prior. > > Only in compressed form. The Literal form is equivalent to non-compressed HTTP/1.1 syntax. So the bandwidth is being expanded from HTTP/2 size up to HTTP/1 size. Low input causing the relay to generate large output is the very definition of amplification. Well, a typed encoding would still offer some modest savings, and there are alternate compression schemes that could be used that are not so stateful. I /do/ like the idea of a start frame (request, response, push promise) before the headers...
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