Re: END_SEGMENT?

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:52 AM, <K.Morgan@iaea.org> wrote:
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END_SEGMENTS allows the layering of record-based semantics onto the framing
layer.

Consider this use case in HTTP/1.1. An API provides a stream of data using
HTTP/1.1 chunked encoding. Each chunk contains a single record, and the
length of this record is indicated by the chunk length. In HTTP/1.1 the
length of these chunks was unconstrained, but when translating into HTTP/2,
these chunks must be segmented into multiple data frames to fit within the
frame size limit.

If the chunk delineation was meaningful, then END_SEGMENT allows this
meaning to be preserved.

The flag is also useful for layering other record-based protocols on top of
HTTP.