Filed https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/300 On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>wrote: > On 25 October 2013 10:37, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <tatsuhiro.t@gmail.com> > wrote: > > This greatly simplifies the things. > > It does not simplify things. Primarily because settings become > negotiable, which is a significant complication. Is this the only > setting that is negotiable? How do we signal that settings are > negotiable? > SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE is already special, since it requires an ack. It doesn't seem that much more onerous to make it negotiable. At worst, the cost to an encoder of an increased header table size > setting is an inability to use the static header table. That means, > worst case, the encoder has to send a few more literals on the wire. > This is not significantly worse than sending > SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE=0. In some respects, it's actually better. > Remember that the setting applies to both contexts, so the other endpoint is forced to keep a full-size context for the decoding state, or close the connection. That doesn't seem good.
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