Re: BLOCKED frame specification

On Apr 9, 2014, at 11:53 AM, David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 2014–04–09, at 4:47 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I want the information that it conveys, and this seems like a workable way of providing it.  I don’t think a RST_STREAM code or GOAWAY data can replace this, because they will only occur after a timeout. The BLOCKED frame can be sent after a much shorter time (1 RTT?) or even immediately.
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>> On second thought, “debugging” is probably more important, because correct implementations should never reach this state.
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> Then why doesn’t PING suffice? You can send it at any time and there’s space for an implementation-defined payload value.
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That only tells me if the connection is working, not if the resources are not coming because of some server issue (like trouble connecting to a back-end database) or because of flow control.

Received on Wednesday, 9 April 2014 09:00:04 UTC