Re: HEADERS and flow control from David Krauss on 2014-05-21 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2014)

From: David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 00:03:56 +0800
To: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Cc: Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>, Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <663A0BBB-5DE2-4F3E-9A08-282F310C532B@gmail.com>

On 2014–05–21, at 11:53 PM, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:

> Well, this is probably fundamentially ill-defined question, but:
> 
> What are the semantics of DATA frames transmitted on stream with HEADER
> block still active? If the HEADER is the first header block? If the HEADER
> is subsequent HEADER block?

If a header block is in progress, anything besides a matching CONTINUATION is specified as a connection error:

> A receiver MUST treat the receipt of any other type of frame or a frame on a different stream as a connection error (Section 5.4.1) of type PROTOCOL_ERROR.

Received on Wednesday, 21 May 2014 16:04:30 UTC