Re: Interleaving #481 (was Re: Limiting header block size)

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 June 2014 01:56, Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com> wrote:
>> One solution would be for load balancers to always reject streams with
>> continuation frames.  This would work perfectly well for 99.9% of traffic.
>> So one may ask why are continuation frames in the spec?
>
> This would be a bad idea.  The existence of continuations is largely
> orthogonal to header size.  You might as well reject requests based on
> whether the current date when converted to RGB is a colour you don't
> like.  Such behaviour leads to the sorts of perversions clients are
> forced to do to get HTTP/1.1 requests working today.

Sorry, I don't understand the date/RGB simile.

Can you please expand in a more technical way the arguments of why it
is a bad idea, and how the existence of continuations is orthogonal to
header size ?
Making examples would help.

Thanks !

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