- From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 05:31:03 -0700
- To: David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>, Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com>
On 22 May 2014 04:03, David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com> wrote: > Even a megabyte? Who sends that many HTTP/1.1 headers? Just divide the > headers into separate blocks, how hard can it be? Yes, even a megabyte. We've had reports of URLs alone that are >64K and as far as I know, the sky's the limit for cookies. > A 1.1<->2 proxy can add divisions arbitrarily, without adding ambiguity. > END_STREAM serves as a flag not to terminate the 1.1 headers. > >> A declared maximum (i.e., settings) might work. > > Not proxyable. Right. But that would only mean that the intermediary would be forced to RST the stream if it couldn't forward it.
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