Re: disabling header compression from James M Snell on 2013-12-12 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:04:28 -0800
To: Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com>
Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABP7RbcKQE3Fn40_niYMQtDF_1fqkxZj1L-SpMbtLo+DTWox7g@mail.gmail.com>

A receiving peer can set it's SETTINGS_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE to 0,
effectively disallowing the sending peer to store any state. That does
not disable header compression as a whole, however.

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible for a browser, proxy, or web server to disable header
> compression in HTTP2? If not, I'm sure there was discussion around this
> decision but my search of the archives has not come up with anything.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
>

Received on Thursday, 12 December 2013 17:05:16 UTC