- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 09:52:04 -0700
- To: Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <tatsuhiro.t@gmail.com>
- Cc: Dmitry Filimonov <me@dfilimonov.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 1 May 2014 08:00, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <tatsuhiro.t@gmail.com> wrote: > But when we do HTTP/2, HPACK is used from HTTP/2 framing layer which uses > HTTP header fields that is still conforming to HTTP/1 spec (although we have > HTTP/2 specific headers starting with ":"). That's right. HPACK encodes a greater range of values than HTTP header fields legally permit so that we can pass header fields that don't have conforming syntax as well. As it turns out, there are lots of those in widespread use (UTF-8 encoding being fairly prominent). Of course, those header fields are still not legal header fields.
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