Re: #466 segment compression

The HTTP/1.1 pipelined case is equivalent to using MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS
of 1. That also guarantees a single compression context. Many HTTP/2
implementations are likely willing to deal with N > 1 simultaneous
compression contexts in exchange for better compression, so long as they
can dictate the upper bound (and indeed they can).


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:42 PM, <K.Morgan@iaea.org> wrote:

> On 02 May 2014 00:01, I wrote:
> > On 29 April 2014 21:57, grmocg@gmail.com wrote:
> >> If compression is per-segment as opposed to per-frame
> >>    AND we wish to restrict the amount of state the server must keep
> around
> >>    AND the sender wishes to have all the data in the segment compressed
> >>   THEN then the segment being compressed must be sent in its entirety
> in a contiguous series of frames with > no muxing of other streams in the
> middle.
> >
> > The exact same problem exists for dynamic compression with C-E.  How are
> you going to solve that?
>
> Sorry to reply to my own e-mail, but I really think this does apply to
> dynamic C-E compression and is a DoS vector.
>
> Suppose a client sends N request for various entities that are dynamically
> compressed, where N=MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS and suggests an equal priority
> for each. If the server gives equal priority to serving each stream, it
> will have N outsanding compression contexts until all requests are
> serviced. By contrast, in HTTP/1.1, even with pipelining, a single client
> on a single connection would only ever require one compression context on
> the server to service its requests.
>
> This is an argument in favor of using frame-by-frame compression for
> dynamic compression since frame-by-frame compression _can_ be implemented
> with only one outstanding compression context at any given time.  It's also
> an argument for mandating client *support* for frame-by-frame gzip (i.e.
> non-optional) because it always gives servers a way out from this DoS
> vector.
>
> Has anybody implemented a native HTTP/2 server with dynamic compression
> support that can speak to this problem?
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