- From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 20:22:40 +0200
- To: Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <tatsuhiro.t@gmail.com>
- Cc: Johnny Graettinger <jgraettinger@chromium.org>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:11:56PM +0900, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Johnny Graettinger < > > > > EOS has value iff it may be used for padding. As HEADERS etc now have an > > explicit padding mechanism I'm also not sure it's needed. (Also: To pad the > > table need only have an 8-bit code. As a canonical code, all-zeros would be > > the shortest code in the table). > > > > > A while ago, we discussed this in the ML. > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2013OctDec/1866.html > > In short, strictly more than 7 bits of 1 if encountered in decoding must be > treated as error. Even with valid UTF-8 (albeit with currently unassigned codepoints), one can come up with values that have 105 consequtive 1 bits if compressed with current tables. -Ilari
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