- From: Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 11:42:18 -0700
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Received on Friday, 9 May 2014 18:42:44 UTC
Currently HEADERS are not subject to flow control. There are a couple of reasons for this, but the biggest one is that this helps to prevent a deadlock which can occur when a server is waiting for a particular request before it can make progress on other responses, but flow control is asserted. One of the potential users of HTTP2 whom I've spoken with wished strongly that HEADERS after the first complete HEADERS block on a stream would be subject to flow control. AFAICT, this would work better than what we have today, without potentially triggering the deadlock scenario for many non-browser usecases. Thoughts? -=R
Received on Friday, 9 May 2014 18:42:44 UTC